On Sat, 6 May 2017 16:07:25 +0200 Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 06/05/2017 à 10:35, Joe a écrit : > > Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > >> > >> You can check the sizes of the disk and the partition as viewed by > >> GRUB with the following commands : > >> > >> ls (hd0) > >> ls (hd0,1) > > > > The netbook is about seven years old, but the laptop is a > > two-year-old HP running Windows 8. Its hard drive is 500GB of which > > the Win partition is about 400GB. > > > > The USB hard drive is physically 120GB, with the single Linux > > partition being physically the first at just over 10GB. > (...) > > I don't think it is a BIOS issue > > Indeed with such disk and partition sizes, it is unlikely that the > issue is caused by a BIOS limitation, even on a 7-year old PC. > > However, the ls command I suggested may still be useful to check > GRUB's idea of the sizes. > ls (hd0) (hd0): Filesystem is unknown. ls (hd0,1) (hd0,1): Filesystem is ext2. (after several seconds' pause) I'm only getting the grub rescue> prompt, not the grub> prompt. Most of grub2 isn't there yet. I believe that 'insmod normal' would bring the full grub2 environment, but that command is hitting the illegal access barrier. -- Joe
