From: "Grégoire Sutre" <gregoire.sutre@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:04:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D83202A.9060900@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D810D54.1020008@cfl.rr.com>
On 03/16/2011 20:19, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 3/16/2011 1:32 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> So I now have some debug info:
>>
>> version=48
>> total_sectors=156312576 C=16383 H=16 S=63
>> error: hd0,msdos1 out of disk.
>> Entering rescue mode...
>> grub rescue>
>>
>> So version is returning something, and it is actually getting the disk
>> size properly. I wonder what else could cause the out of disk message
>> then.
>
> What does the partition table look like? It doesn't extend beyond
> sector 156312575 does it?
>
> Also I wonder about why H=16. It should be 255.
I didn't look at the code, but this is probably the ATA geometry of
the disk, which is returned by the INT-13h (Extended) function 48h
(Read Drive Parameters). If I remember correctly, this geometry is
always 16383/16/63 for disks larger than 8.4GB.
Grégoire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-18 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-16 15:13 How to debug 'out of disk' error Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 15:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-16 16:58 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 17:21 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-16 17:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 17:58 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-16 18:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 19:19 ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-16 19:23 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 20:09 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 20:19 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-16 22:00 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 22:16 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-17 14:06 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-17 14:18 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-17 16:09 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-17 16:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-17 18:40 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-17 19:01 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-03-17 19:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-18 9:04 ` Grégoire Sutre [this message]
2011-03-18 14:22 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-18 14:56 ` Grégoire Sutre
2011-03-18 15:26 ` Lennart Sorensen
2011-03-16 19:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-04-06 12:50 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2011-04-06 14:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
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