GRUB Loading, Error 18

[Kenneth]

--- Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at 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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