Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Saturday 2006-11-25 at 23:03 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:

> > info grub, Troubleshooting, Stage2 errors:
> > 
> > | 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).
> > 
> > 
> > Create a separate /boot partition somewhere near the begingining of your
> > hard disk.
> 
> Thanks for the response but, eh, I have been dual-booting for years now and
> therefore already have a 300MB boot partition at the start of the HD, and have
> been running 10.1 without any problems since it came out until this morning
> when the error message suddenly came up. (Just checked with cfdisk and all the
> partitions are there as they are supposed to be.)

Ugh. Seems to be correct...

> Checked in the BIOS and all drives are correctly recognised.
> 
> Any other suggestions, please?

No... sorry.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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