512MB limit Was: Re: boot floppy fails on different machine

[Hans-Christian Armingeon]

Am Montag, 20. Mai 2002 11:11 schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji:
> At 19 May 2002 12:50:11 +0100,
>
> Peter Baxendale wrote:
> > Then I tried the binaries at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ :
> > tar xvfz grub-0.92-i386-pc.tar.gz
> > cd grub-0.92-i386-pc/boot/grub
> > dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> > dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
> > This has exactly the same end result - hang with the 486.
>
> One possible cause may be the BIOS setting. For example, you must make
> sure that the geometry of the floppy is identical to the media you
> used for GRUB.
>
> However, I wouldn't be surprised even if GRUB doesn't work with 486,
> as I haven't tested it with 486 at all (simply because I have no
> 486). Does anyone use GRUB with 486 with no problem?

I am using grub on my 486 Laptop, and it works great. The only problem is the 
BIOS. I can't access partitions over the 512 MB limit.

Will there be a possibility to go around this limitation?

>
> Thanks,
> Okuji

tia,

Johnny