Grub Error 18

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:50:25PM +0100, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a potential candidate for testing the fix to this bug:

  https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1566

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]