Re: GRUB can't handle hard drive with EZ-Drive from IBM

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Feb 6, thomas poindessous wrote:
> I have a IBM 40 Gig. As my bios doesn't reconized it, I have installed
> EZ-Drive. If I boot with GRUB floopy disk, it handle my partitions but
> Linux think my disk is only 33 Gig. If I boot with GRUB floppy after the
> EZ-DRIVE selector, GRUB can't get my partitions. But it's the only way to
> get all my 40 Gig.

So without EZ-drive installed grub can see the partitions, but with
EZ-drive it can't?  Very strange, it should be the other way round.

> in GRUB :
> 
> > kernel (hd1,

Shouldn't it be hd0, or is the 40 Gig disk your second hard disk?

> and <tab> shows nothing.

What does the command "geometry (hd1)" (try also with hd0) in GRUB
print?  Please try it with and without going through the EZ-drive
selector.

> Is there a way to use GRUB with EZ-DRIVE ?

The latest CVS version has EZ support, which means that it can read a
EZ disk without going through the EZ-Drive selector.  The page
http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html contains details how to access
CVS.  But your symptoms are strange, so I'm not sure if it helps you.

  Jochen