How turn OFF LBA in grub? Major BUG?

[Nick Urbanik]

Dear folks,

I have a hard disk that is set up in the BIOS with LARGE instead of LBA.  If I
change it to LBA, then a grub boot floppy can read the file systems before
booting.  Otherwise, it cannot.  If I change to LBA though, I get copious
warnings from fdisk about bad alignment of partitions, and Windows cannot boot.

I can boot this system using LILO with the linear option.

I have searched the archives: a number of people have asked about similar
problems, but have all received no actual answer.

So--LBA is not the answer to everything, and sometimes it needs to be turned
off.  How to do this with grub?

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