Grub 18 Error

[Wade Smart]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Wade Smart<wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Oliver Grawert<ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>> On Sa, 2009-07-11 at 09:10 -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.
>> make sure to have LBA mode switched on for that drive in your BIOS
>>
>> ciao
>>        oli
>>
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>
> In bios:
> Quantum Fireball lct 20 30
> Type auto
> Max Capcity 2.1gb (not sure what that means)
>
> LBA Mode: Supported
> Block Mode: 8 Sectors
> PIO Mode: Mode 4
> Ultra DMA: Mode 2
> Cable Detected: 40 conductor
>
> Crap. The only thing I see that is of is I plugged the hd into the
> Secondary Master Slave.
> Im changing that now.
>

Per Siggy instructions, I reformatted my drive, chose the manual
partitioning and after a mistake or two, I have 9.04 installed. :D CPU
is running 6 t 7% and ram is 196mb of 2gb. So, thats good.

Thanks all - and Siggy :D for the help.