Grub Error 18

Jan Kokoska kokoskaj at seznam.cz
Sat Oct 2 16:50:25 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 16:48 +0200, Solkar Saruman wrote:
> My problem is this. All the installation proces goes ok but after
> rebooting it gets this error message about Grub.
> 
> I'm stuck in that point. Any solution?
> 
-- 

Error 18 in Grub means exceeded max cylinder BIOS supports. 

To fix it, either:

Set your BIOS to use LBA (Logical Block Addressing) for the harddrive
you are booting from (or for all as it is reasonable).

Or:

If it is on already, or changes nothing, the cylinder number actually is
wrong (and something like changing geometry took place, of the config
tool went bonkers over your disk layout) and a tool like Partition Magic
(or graphical qparted or GNU parted for purists) will help you fix it.

Jan Kokoska





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