Grub Error 18

[Solkar Saruman]

I readed the bug report and gave some ideas. Just changed in my BIOS
from LBA mode to Normal and now it works. Although I'll try that
new-parted iso to see if it fixes it.

(Sorry for my English, I'm not practicing too much)


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:04:12 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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]
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