Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 20:47 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Suddenly I cannot boot into 10.1 with GRUB coming up with, "Error 18" as soon
as it starts to execute on bootup.
Does anyone know what this error means and how to get grub working correctly
again?
info grub, Troubleshooting, Stage2 errors:
| 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).
Create a separate /boot partition somewhere near the begingining of your
hard disk.
Thanks for the response but, eh, I have been dual-booting for years now
and therefore already have a 300MB boot partition at the start of the
HD, and have been running 10.1 without any problems since it came out
until this morning when the error message suddenly came up. (Just
checked with cfdisk and all the partitions are there as they are
supposed to be.)
Checked in the BIOS and all drives are correctly recognised.
Any other suggestions, please?
Cheers.
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