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grub2 package

  1. Bug #252047
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 252047

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Edward Sargisson (esarge) wrote :

Hi,
I'll accept your comment about the 1024 cylinder limit and older BIOSes. However, putting boot below that limit did work. This is an IBM ThinkPad T43 for reference.

As for how to detect it. The symptoms were that grub gave error messages when using root. Only rootnoverify allowed me to continue - though not very far. Therefore, perhaps a detection method would be to see if grub can read /boot before continuing.

Files attached as requested.