* Testing for broken bios
@ 2010-09-29 0:28 Phillip Susi
2010-09-29 0:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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From: Phillip Susi @ 2010-09-29 0:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: grub-devel
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.
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* Re: Testing for broken bios
2010-09-29 0:28 Testing for broken bios Phillip Susi
@ 2010-09-29 0:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-29 13:52 ` Phillip Susi
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From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko @ 2010-09-29 0:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: grub-devel
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On 09/29/2010 02:28 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 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.
Please upgrade. It looks like a known error (BIOS reports ghost drives
and GRUB doesn't ignore errors arising from an attempt to scan them)
which was fixed a while ago
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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* Re: Testing for broken bios
2010-09-29 0:34 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
@ 2010-09-29 13:52 ` Phillip Susi
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From: Phillip Susi @ 2010-09-29 13:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The development of GNU GRUB
Cc: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
On 9/28/2010 8:34 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 09/29/2010 02:28 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> 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.
> Please upgrade. It looks like a known error (BIOS reports ghost drives
> and GRUB doesn't ignore errors arising from an attempt to scan them)
> which was fixed a while ago
The user is running Lucid, so should have a build based on 1.98, which
appears to be the latest release. Is this fix more recent? And the
question remains; is there a way to see the information the bios is
reporting so I can confirm whether or not it is wrong?
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