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

[Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel]

Le Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:34:13 +0200,
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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>

This is very strange, the disk is an small 40Gb disk on a T40 Ibm thinkpad.
I re-install the current grub 1.99-8 and now it works.
But as your said this is maybe by chance due to the position of the
files on the file system.

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