Comment 83 for bug 260001

After poking about a bit, I found this. 'grub-install /dev/sda' calls grub:

/usr/sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
grub> dump (hd0,2)/boot/grub/stage1 /tmp/grubX4px17
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

Which is weird, because I have a fairly top-of-the-line and recent Shuttle XPC. Only difference is that I now have a really large disk in there. LBA addressing should be on in the BIOS, I'll have to check, but maybe it's to big for even LBA?

Disk is set up like this btw.. [ntfs 1.4TB] [swap 512MB] [ext3 30GB]

I guess you could get around this by putting a '/boot' partition of say 64Mb or so on the beginning of the disk, but isn't there a way around this?