Problem with booting FC2T2

[mike]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 18:24 +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Well it always has before, never had this problem before (since RH5.2)
The only difference is that usually setup automatically puts in lba

Problem with force-lba is that it works with install, and I cant get
past root(hd0,1) error

bios is ali 1541


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