Grub Errors

Eric ejazzkatt at gmail.com
Sat Nov 22 17:53:02 UTC 2008


Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 22 November 2008, Eric wrote:
>> Can anyone explain what I would need to do to reinstall and not have the
>> error 18 problem?
> 
> You would need to move the boot partition to an area that is closer to the 
> beginning of the hard drive.   A BIOS is limited to how far out on the disk 
> it can reach to boot.
> 
> I think you would eliminate this problem by installing grub in the MBR (master 
> boot record) which is at the very beginning of the disk.   The initial stages 
> of grub could then boot the kernel from wherever you placed it.

That's part of the problem. How do I install Grub in the MBR? I was 
about to reinstall Kubuntu but I didn't know how to tell it to install 
Grub where I want it.

Eric



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