Grub problems

[Tony Pursell]

On 24 Feb 2005 at 22:22, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> am trying to install Ubuntu on my old machine
> 166 intel  64 meg edo ram, 2 Seagate 2.1 drives.
> Installing on second drive, (windows on the first),
> got to where the cd is ejected and re-boot,
> get Grub loading, then
> Error 18  will not proceed any further.
> 

This is the explanation of Error 18 from the GRU Manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html

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).

You might need to switch on LBA  or some other large disk support if 
the BIOS has it.

Tony Pursell