Ubuntu
grub package

New install and I receive error 18 code

Asked by Jeff Toney

This install is from disk that came with Official Ubuntu Book 2nd edition - Installing on blank 164 gig hard disk with no operating system installed. Everything seemed to go well until boot. 700 with over 500 meg of memory.

GRUB Loading stage1.5.

GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 18

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#1

Hi !

Does that help ?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml

Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds max supported by BIOS

  Solution

 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).
 Try an update for your BIOS and/or move your boot partition to the front (or at least into the appropriate range).

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