Bug#565486: Info received (Bug#565486: Info received (Bug#565486: Info received (can't boot from partition of higher number than partition beyond bios limit)))

[Arthur Marsh]

Please close this bug.

On this machine, which has a Biostar M6TBC motherboard with 32 GiB BIOS 
limit on disk sizes, the BIOS options for disks are "LBA" "LARGE" and 
"AUTO", but I couldn't get larger than 8 point something gigabytes to 
save, except for the 40 GB disk on /dev/sdb when running the BIOS 
"auto-detect hard disks". Having done that, /dev/sdb is now recognised 
by the BIOS as 32 GiB and (hd1,msdos7) (hd1,msdos6) (hd1,msdos5) 
(hd1,msdos3) and (hd1,msdos1) appear in ls at the GRUB prompt.

The 320 GB boot disk /dev/sda is still only recognised by the BIOS as 
about 8 GB in size, but as the /boot partition is within that area, GRUB 
can read the /boot partition via BIOS calls.

Arthur.