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Subject: Testing for broken bios
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Is there a command I'm missing to print the int 13 information provided 
by the bios to diagnose possible errors?  I have a user on the Ubuntu 
forums that is getting an "error: out of disk" and rescue shell. 
Looking at the code it seems this would be caused by a partition being 
outside the disk, but that does not appear to be the case.  The only 
other explanation I can come up with is that the bios is reporting the 
wrong size for the disk, but I'm not sure how to test for this.