Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 06/09/18 00:10 (GMT-0400) Paul Abrahams apparently typed:

> On Monday 18 September 2006 12:02 am, Felix Miata wrote:

>> The >128G HD size makes this sound like a geometry mismatch problem,
>> even as new as the motherboard and BIOS are. Because it used to work, I
>> suspect no one's going to figure out how it got broken, but I'll bet
>> starting from scratch with a disk wipe and putting a /boot or / and Grub
>> on the first cylinder would fix it permanently.

> I'm reluctantly reaching the conclusion that I have to start the installation 
> all over again, possibly even the Windows part.  But I just might be able to 
> get away with rearranging the Linux partitions to put the boot partition 
> ahead of the root partition, since the boot partition is the one that grub 
> needs to work with.

That might work, but the reason I suggested putting /boot on cylinder 1
(start of disk) is to ensure that its partition begins before LBA sector
1,032,192 (1024*16*63).
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