Grub 18 Error

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:10:13AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
> I have another thread OS boot error that this follows.
> 
> I installed a 30GB drive that I had laying around. I know its good as
> I have used it many times for backups.
> 
> I put it in my machine, ran 9.04 from the cd and everything went fine.
> 
> However, when I boot up I immediately receive:
> 
> GRUB Error 18.
> 
> >From the GNU manual I see that this means:
> 
> 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
>     This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block
> address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally
> happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for
> (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general).
> 
> What does one do about that? I mean, this isnt the newest of hd's so
> there is nothing out of the ordinary there.

In the old times with 512MB limit I created a small boot partition
at the beginning, just big enough to hold some kernel images and
grub. In the installer mount it on /boot.
Worked for me in the past.

Regs
  Siggy
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