[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]
** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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I can't believe that there's a modern system that still has the 1024
cylinder limit as that would mean that any Windows install would
randomly die when a boot file moved above that point. I'm thinking that
this problem was actually due to the fact that the partition started
beyond 219 GB and grub
** Tags added: ubiquity-1.8.7
** Tags added: hardy
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Thanks - I'll try to have a look through these soon.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Hi,
I'll accept your comment about the 1024 cylinder limit and older BIOSes.
However, putting boot below that limit did work. This is an IBM ThinkPad T43
for reference.
As for how to detect it. The symptoms were that grub gave error messages
when using root. Only rootnoverify allowed me to conti
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The 1024-cylinder restriction is very old; I understand that BIOSes
since about 1997 have generally been supplied with the necessary
extensions to avoid it as standard. How old is your BIOS? I'm reluctant
to make the default behaviour of the Ubuntu installer be to create a
/boot partition to work a
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