@Ian Bruntlett,@Andy

[Wolf Lammen]

@Ian Brunlett:
THINKING ABOUT HARD DISKS:
The waste of sectors isn’t that much. It‘s at most 63 sectors,
since the usable area on a DOS-like partitioned disk (there are other formats
with less restrictions) starts from CHS 0/1/1. By the way: sector 0 does not
exist in the CHS counting scheme. Unlike cylinders and heads sectors count
off from 1.
@Andy:
The error message says, that GRUB stage 1 tried to find out the geometry of
a hard disk, using a BIOS call INT 0x13, function 8, but somehow this call
did not succeed (the disk was not available [is there an entry in the BIOS
setup for it?], hardware problems...). I’ve got a diagnosis stage 1 that
prints out the BIOS error code, but to use it you have to know how to install
and restore a master boot record safely.

Wolf Lammen

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