The drive is too big for the PC. Use a smaller drive for /boot. Or boot from some other media, floppy/cd/CF.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:55:28AM +0000, Alexey Toptygin wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an older IDE drive, a Seagate ST51080A. It responds to probes as > CHS=2100/16/63 (both according to BIOS autodetection and to the linux > kernel's /proc/ide/hda/gemoetry 'physical' line), but the drive sticker > has 2096/16/63 written on it. badblocks -w reports that all 2100 cylinders > are OK. I've tried booting from it with grub 0.97-12 from Debian install > media on 2 different pentium systems, but I get Error 18 in all cases. > I've tried forcing the BIOS geometry to 2100/16/63 and giving a 'geometry > hd0 2100 16 63' to grub, and likewise with 2096/16/63 and 'geometry hd0 > 2096 16 63', but the result is the same. This is the only drive, and > device.map correctly has (hd0) /dev/hda. > > What's going on? How can I troubleshoot further? Please Cc: me, I'm not on > the list. > > Thanks > Alexey > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Link Innovations - 02 9634 0400 http://www.linkinnovations.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub