Grub 18 Error

[Wade Smart]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Siggy Brentrup<ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:10:13AM -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>> I have another thread OS boot error that this follows.
>>
>> I installed a 30GB drive that I had laying around. I know its good as
>> I have used it many times for backups.
>>
>> I put it in my machine, ran 9.04 from the cd and everything went fine.
>>
>> However, when I boot up I immediately receive:
>>
>> GRUB Error 18.
>>
>> >From the GNU manual I see that this means:
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> What does one do about that? I mean, this isnt the newest of hd's so
>> there is nothing out of the ordinary there.
>
> In the old times with 512MB limit I created a small boot partition
> at the beginning, just big enough to hold some kernel images and
> grub. In the installer mount it on /boot.
> Worked for me in the past.
>
> Regs
>  Siggy

For this setup I just walked right through the basic install process
accepting the default install options on 9.04 so... is it? Unless it
is put else where - I would say yes. Would the installer do it
elsewhere?


Wade