[K3PZN-List] Who is the resident computer expert of the club ??

[Matt Smith]

Did you use a separate /boot partition at the beginning of the drive? Older
systems can only boot from a small portion of the beginning of a drive that
large, regardless of LBA and such settings, and if /boot is simply part of a
large root partition, it can easily wind up in an area of the drive that the
system is not capable of booting from. I'm not sure if that would result in
the drive being seen as completely unbootable or if GRUB would load
partially and then report an error, though.

As for the IDE error, I've never seen anything like that, but it wouldn't
suprise me if it's something specific to Ubuntu kernels (they've gained a
bit of notoriety for introducing kernel bugs, if I'm remembering correctly).

Sean Shaffer wrote:
> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS x86
>  
> BIOS is from around 2001-2003 (uncertain as to exact era)
> BIOS has option for CHS, LBA, Large and AUTO for HDD "Access Mode"
> (Is Large = LBA48 ?)
> I had kept BIOS at AUTO and 500GB was detected.
>  
> For Scott's question, the drive was originally detected as 500GB when I first installed it.
> I copied over my data but hadn't expanded any partition to the full size of the drive yet.
> (Wanted to make sure all was well before I did)
> (gparted from liveCD and Ubuntu can see the full 500GB drive, when it was still detected)
>  
> For Steve's question bootloader is GRUB and worked before drive was no longer detected.
> I was able to boot to Ubuntu and check email but now the drive is no longer booting.
>  
> This IDE error is new to me, the bug reports are a few years old in some cases and more recent in others.
> (Some are Ubuntu 7.10 others are Ubuntu 9.04)
> But for me I didn't get this error till after the 500GB drive went bad and I put the old one back in.
> (The error occurs with the old 30GB)
>  
> I think I did notice a jumper setting for 137GB on the new drive.
> But didn't set it that way because I thought the BIOS could take it.
> (Unless I am mistaken in regards to the Large = LBA48 thing)
>  
> I'll try to see if that makes a difference.
> (I am little uncertain that the drive may not have suffered some damage by now.)
>