Hello from Gregg C Levine Before this event, did your Gentoo system startup normally? And more importantly can you boot the system using a boot disk from either operating system?
Please note that your release of GRUB just might, might mind you, be a customized version of GRUB that differs slightly from the vanilla version available from the appropriate locations. You'd have to check the source locations for their delivered version of GRUB to see if they supplied any patches, which would be applied at some point during its creation, and in this case, we can't help you that much. This becomes evident if you were to see a splash image before the process starts booting. ----- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "Remember the Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bug- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koen Segers > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:04 PM > To: bug-grub@gnu.org > Subject: error 18 > > I'm working on gentoo for 2 years now. I still have a dual boot with windows > xp. Today (after many months) my sister needed windows. I rebooted but I > got the strange error 18 on my screen. In documentation of grub it states > that this is a problem with BIOS. Strangely enough there was no problem > before. Any idea what could have caused this error? Maybe an update of > grub? > > my current version is: > $grub --version > grub (GNU GRUB 0.96) > > It is impossible to look in the logs because it might be a problem that > exists for many months as I have never booted windows since... > > This is my grub.conf: > $cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > default 0 > timeout 10 > fallback 1 > splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r9 > root(hd0,0) > kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/md0 floppy=no_acpi > gentoo=nodevfs > > title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r6 > root(hd0,0) > kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 floppy=no_acpi > gentoo=nodevfs > > > title=Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > > fdisk of my 2 hdd: > $fdisk -l /dev/hda > Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 2551 14946 99570870 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 2551 4375 14659281 fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/hda6 4376 4388 104391 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/hda7 4389 10468 48837568+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/hda8 10469 14946 35969503+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > > $fdisk -l /dev/hdc > Disk /dev/hdc: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 * 1 195 98248+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdc2 196 238216 119962584 5 Extended > /dev/hdc5 196 38755 19434208+ b W95 FAT32 > /dev/hdc6 38756 67820 14648728+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/hdc7 67821 68015 98248+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/hdc8 68016 164897 48828496+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > /dev/hdc9 164898 238216 36952744+ fd Linux raid > autodetect > > Plz help > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub