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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.
I had a system with BIOS problems with large HD's. The only solutions was to create a 100-500 MB partition at the front and use it for grub. I had a MS product and Linux. It dempstrated the same problems you are seeing. I finally purchased another HD. Created a 200 MB DOS partition, 400 MB boot and then the rest as needed. I then installed SUSE 10.1. I then backuped all the needed files to the new HD and modified the orignal HD. The system has been rock solid since. I put a new HD in it today to test, I created the partitions so the BIOS had problems and I got the exact same behavior you are seeing. Random failures. I think you were just lucky that it worked as long as it did. Good Luck, - -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQFFDwCnVtBjDid73eYRAt9BAJ9HKi/N4W+mhmduGThvXjuNWgMPTwCfV/Mk LO9XRy90K8LVRKH1jfY+oe8= =anGp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----