--- Darrin Chandler <
dwchandler@stilyagin.com> 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.
>
The only downside was if you needed to make several partitions, and didn't
have room in the partition table to add the boot.
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