[GRLUG] Ubuntu, Grub :"No filesystem found: Grub Rescue>"

[Ben Rousch]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Luan Pham <luanlx.louie at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 06:01 -0400, bcreswel at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>> For the 3rd time since using Ubuntu 10.04, I have come to my laptop
>> with a frozen screen, and rebooted to find
>
> This happen to me on Fedora and Mandriva when I let it designate the
> drive over 200GB, so I just reduce Linux partition down to 140 GB.
> Since for some reason both Mandriva and Fedora got unclean shut when I
> used over 200 GB.

That's interesting. According to this page, there is a hard drive size
barrier at 137GB which can cause data loss if you use a bigger
partition with certain chipsets.
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
Scroll down to the "The ATA Interface Limit (128 GiB / 137 GB) Barrier"

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