Re: Grub loading please wait... Error 18

2008-04-18 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:44:26PM -0600, Frank Halliwell wrote: > Some considerate people give you the option of using either LILO or > GRUB! The debian-installer does, as documented [1]; "If you do not want to install grub at all, use the Back button to get to the main menu, and from there s

Re: Grub loading please wait... Error 18

2008-04-17 Thread Ryan Niebur
error 18 means that the boot partition is bigger than you BIOS can handle (this only affects booting). To solve this, during the partitioning step make an additional (primary) partition that is small (512MB should be the most you'll ever need). Set that partition's mount point to /boot. Do the rest

Grub loading please wait... Error 18

2008-04-17 Thread Frank Halliwell
And you wait until next year. Who wrote this disaster? Ninety-five percent of the problems I've had with Linux are traceable back to GRUB!!! Some considerate people give you the option of using either LILO or GRUB! With most, it's grub only, followed by a system hangup! There should be a grub