From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1P0x5w-0006m1-4P for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:16 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46465 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P0x5q-0006jL-Af for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0x5l-0004hf-De for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:10 -0400 Received: from exhub016-3.exch016.msoutlookonline.net ([207.5.72.226]:45506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0x5l-0004hT-8q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:53:05 -0400 Received: from [10.1.1.235] (72.242.190.170) by SMTPX16.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.190) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.234.1; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:53:03 -0700 Message-ID: <4CA344BA.2090508@cfl.rr.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:52:58 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4CA28823.8050103@cfl.rr.com> <4CA28978.4040207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA28978.4040207@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= 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 13:53:15 -0000 On 9/28/2010 8:34 PM, Vladimir '=CF=86-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?