From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Testing for broken bios
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:52:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA344BA.2090508@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CA28978.4040207@gmail.com>
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?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-29 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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