Problem with booting FC2T2

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:47:57PM +0100, mike wrote:
> I have just installed test2 on my home PC (third PC installed on)
> Apart from the BIOS not recognising the CD as bootable everything went
> without a hitch in the install.
> 
> However it will not boot at all - it comes up with the grub shell.
> 
> Then if I do root(hd0,1) - where my root partition is
> I get a message saying "block range ouside BIOS" cant remember exactly,
> at work at the moment.
> 
> The Hardware is amd K6 500, 256 Mb 20 Gb WDC drive
> 
> All I can think of is trying to tell grub to use lba32, but I cant seem
> to find how to do it.

Grub detects and uses lba32 automatically, but it can be forced with
--force-lba on install.

Probably your board doesn't support lba32. In that case, create a primary
/boot partition on the first sectors of your harddisk (below 4Gb).

Regards,
Luciano Rocha