Christof Warlich schrieb:
> Do you think I can fix the issue and circumvent the BIOS by passing 
> the real geomerty of the drive as kernel boot parameters? This may 
> also have the nice side effect that I could utilize the full capacity 
> of the drive. I'll definitly do some experiments in this direction and 
> let you know immediately if I succeed. Please let me know if this may 
> be a waste of time or if you know an appropriate fix.
I retried with the boot parameter hda=16383,16,63 according to the 
values that I got from fdisk, but without success. Anyway, I would have 
expected that the kernel may have had a way to set the LBA48 geometry 
instead of CHS, but it looks like I'm on the wrong track here...