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Old 11-13-2005, 05:21 AM   #1
pridefc
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Grub Error 18: Exceeds Bios


Hello,

Thank you in advance.
I was running Suse 10 and just added Debian 3.1 to multiboot.
I can boot to Suse just fine however, when I try to boot to newly installed Debian, I get:

Grub Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinz-2.6.8-2-386 root =/dev/hda3 ro

Here's fdisk output:
Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 102 819283+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 103 10546 83891430 83 Linux (**Suse 10**)
/dev/hda3 * 10547 19369 70870747+ 83 Linux (**Debian 3.1**)
/dev/hda4 19370 19457 706860 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 19370 19457 706828+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Here's the menu.lst:
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x314 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

( ** I added this part to existing Suse's menu.lst**)
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot

Last edited by pridefc; 11-13-2005 at 04:27 PM.
 
  


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