From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1P0kck-00048G-J1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:34:18 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38659 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0kch-00045X-H5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:34:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0kcg-0005Xn-Cb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:34:15 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:53358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0kcg-0005Xb-7y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:34:14 -0400 Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so263064bwz.0 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:34:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=6qCt2qsi0wgUhJTVp+J7cYsdK3kf3UCeXOUHvLeDmLc=; b=EBh4tnzH/RT/IPjHxgYA0rcpdsNNH+q38w+jFiom23SIiA6/sY9arDXZgcZlRiQuBe fYNfOTEcBGs6IBgBcAXjip5j9kzbllJ7SiaknSGJsUF55bwZRU+ObDHZ4UgHRiV940Pp m6lJV9hsFsuXnYkcXrLZnVfY5ziQ89D37/0Bc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=G8r//h9bhQwtveUtrov1EXLCsbOVFYFPyTINjfEkuHMFj+A7pNaT5dbE7Cd67D4Uyl NgxqVmdkGbxpZOr8MmMpXrmPZi/ezuT3VFeNdbmwE2Szs3sN0k8w6cS4NfXKdHg5U0OS O4fLBbFantMMgcuveJvtb5mB8WKRceNdp5dJQ= Received: by 10.204.126.29 with SMTP id a29mr674039bks.59.1285720452863; Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:34:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs49.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.49]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm6142433bkr.7.2010.09.28.17.34.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CA28978.4040207@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:34:00 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100805 Icedove/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org References: <4CA28823.8050103@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA28823.8050103@cfl.rr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE2F8733A1736A2E876D6E1AD" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Testing for broken bios X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:34:16 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE2F8733A1736A2E876D6E1AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enigE2F8733A1736A2E876D6E1AD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAkyiiXgACgkQNak7dOguQgnF0gD/UeLH2AlbrkqtL798Ti6QSPue fH4vArF00LVJtyVZDlQA/2GjcCC5bRHTGzncH8BoTK+iKd4zb9PmMf8GWrY9DKoL =sf6j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE2F8733A1736A2E876D6E1AD--