Re: GRUB "Error 18" booting lenny

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Troubleshooting.html#Troubleshooting 
>
>
> says:
>
> 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).


Rebooting often solves that problem, if it still won't boot the OP can 
use the Debian install disk to reinstall grub, reinstalling grub is now 
a boot option on all Debian install cd's.
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Jimmy Johnson

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