Moving boot

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>    I'm not going to answer Les because he keeps changing the message 
>> to other topics that have nothing to do with this one. The subject is 
>> that I have a setup right now on my computer that is IMPOSSIBLE if, 
>> the rules for BIOS being thrown around are even close to being 
>> correct. I think they are at best too old or just wrong.
>
> There's more than one rule depending on the age and version of your 
> bios and possibly the jumpers on your disk.  There is a simple way to 
> satisfy all of the rules if you are unwilling to figure out which one 
> you are violating.
>
>>    I have right now grub on the MBR of the Master Hard Drive which is 
>> (hd0) and the /boot/grub/ that the grub directs BIOS to find is on 
>> the second Hard Drive at /dev/sdb6/ which is (hd1,5) in Grub talk. I 
>> checked and /boot/grub/ is at least 7,000 cylinders up the second 
>> hard drive ;-)
>>
>>    So my point to Les and all of you is that BIOS works a whole lot 
>> better than everyone seems to think.
>
> Current versions of bios have no problem with current drives.
>
>> It goes all the way to the second hard drive from the first, and then 
>> 7,000 cylinders more and starts my system. Every time for years 8-)
>
> Except when it didn't, and gave that message about exceeding a bios 
> limit.  Time to explain that...
>
    See what I mean? Les introduced the line above which has NOTHING to 
do with what I wrote above that line.

    So from this point onward I will neither answer or read any more of 
his email on this list. I think he is trying to "get me" and it worked. 
Goodbye Les.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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