Grub 18 Error

[Christopher Chan]

> Four months later, same problem, where about and how in the bios?
>   


Nevermind the bios settings. You can use CHS/LBA/LARGE if you have that 
old of a motherboard in the BIOS settings without any problems. You just 
need to make sure the partition used for booting is within 'reach' of 
the BIOS.

The first partition should be about a few hundred mebibytes in size 
(kernel images are small so you really do not need a big /boot filesytem 
- 128mebibytes will suffice) and you inform the installer to mount it 
under /boot. Then you can setup the second partition for swap (or put 
swap on lvm - whatever you fancy - but you might want to avoid any lvm 
to avoid potential data loss) and the third partition for everything 
else or an extended partition and carve that up into logical partitions.

Suggestions:

hda1 = 128 mebibytes (/boot)
hda2 = 2 gibibytes (swap)
hda3 = everything else (/)

or

hda1 = 128 mebibytes (/boot)
hda2 = 2 gibibytes (swap)
hda3 = everything else extended partition
hda5 = 8 gibibytes (/)
hda6 = rest of extended partition (/home)