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.
--
Darrin Chandler
dwchandler@stilyagin.com
http://www.stilyagin.com/
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