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Re: Testing for broken bios
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko |
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Re: Testing for broken bios |
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Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:34:00 +0200 |
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On 09/29/2010 02:28 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Is there a command I'm missing to print the int 13 information
> provided by the bios to diagnose possible errors? I have a user on
> the Ubuntu forums that is getting an "error: out of disk" and rescue
> shell. Looking at the code it seems this would be caused by a
> partition being outside the disk, but that does not appear to be the
> case. The only other explanation I can come up with is that the bios
> is reporting the wrong size for the disk, but I'm not sure how to test
> for this.
Please upgrade. It looks like a known error (BIOS reports ghost drives
and GRUB doesn't ignore errors arising from an attempt to scan them)
which was fixed a while ago
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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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