I pulled my 17 yr. old Intel D850GB based build out of the closet, and fired it up. It had XP Home on it that (for some reason) wanted re-activation. I didn't care about that, I wanted to put Fedora on it. However, during the boot process of the install disc, got the "display out of range" signal on the monitor. Not much I can do with that, so I tried other discs. I tried Debian 9.5 netinst, Ubuntu 16.04 sever...anything that would fit on a CD, as this machine does not have a DVD drive, and is too old to boot from USB. I would get the distros installed but upon reboot would get:
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error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
entering rescue mode
grub rescue>
Just for the record- the HDD is a Western Digital IDE 7200 RPM.
O.K., so I tried to fix this with:
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grub rescue > ls (hd0)
grub rescue > set root=(hd0)
grub rescue > set prefix=(hd0)/boot/grub
grub rescue > insmod normal
grub rescue > normal
But....that didn't work. Upon reboot would still get "error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'".
I was successful getting an old copy of Debian 6.06(badly EOL) installed and working without any "hd0" errors.
Question:What does "error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'"
actually indicate? Something wrong with the hard drive?
Something not working during partitioning?[/QUOTE]