GRUB Loading, Error 18

[Darrin Chandler]

Kenneth wrote:

>>From list of errors in grub info page:
>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).
>
>I never had this problem so never worried about it, but this is the reason
>many people create a small partition for /boot, that resides near the front
>of the disk.
>
>  
>

I *have* had this problem. Creating a 10MB /boot up front will save tons 
of headaches. Even though newer BIOS's have made the bootable area 
*much* larger, hard drives have gotten larger yet. On the downside of 
creating a /boot partition... oh, yeah, there's no downside.

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Darrin Chandler
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