Bug#628900: grub: upgrading to 1.99-6 broke my system

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 02.06.2011 11:41, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> after an upgrade from 1.99-5 to 1.99-6, I could not reboot my system:
>
> the message was:
>
> Grub error: out of disk
This usually means that your BIOS isn't able to support the whole disk
and if any of GRUB files are outside of the part accessible through BIOS
it triggers this error. If the partition containing /boot crosses this
limit the files land before or after the limit in seamingly random
fashion. You can avoid this BIOS issue by having a separate /boot in the
beginning of partition.
GRUB can circumvent this problem by using its own drivers (you have to
add --disk-module=ata to grub-install for this)
> rescue>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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