GRUB Loading, Error 18

[Bupkus]

Darrin Chandler wrote:

> 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.
>
I'm wondering about which types of file systems to use.
I just built a /boot partition as a Primary using ext3,
a / partition as a Primary using Reiser,
and last, a swap partition as, well... swap.
I'm hoping this will do for this nForce2 chipset with a 2004 bios.