On Monday 18 September 2006 8:56 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Paul Abrahams wrote:
I redid the boot diskette and now I do get the prompt. I executed the root (hd0,7) command repeatedly until it worked. But then the
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7
command failed consistently with Error 18 (the BIOS limitation error).
Just a quick semi related question. Why do you have boot on a separate partition, and then have that partition so high? You could maybe try making a new boot dir, copying your old boot, unmount boot, adjust your menu.lst and fstab, and try again. At least boot may be a bit more reachable for the BIOS. IIUC, the main reason to have a separate boot is to make it more reachable by keeping it on a lower partition. It may not help, but cannot hurt.
I agree -- I just didn't think of that when I was setting it up. Paul