Re: Error 18

[Jason Thomas]

The drive is too big for the PC.  Use a smaller drive for /boot.

Or boot from some other media, floppy/cd/CF.

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 04:55:28AM +0000, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an older IDE drive, a Seagate ST51080A. It responds to probes as 
> CHS=2100/16/63 (both according to BIOS autodetection and to the linux 
> kernel's /proc/ide/hda/gemoetry 'physical' line), but the drive sticker 
> has 2096/16/63 written on it. badblocks -w reports that all 2100 cylinders 
> are OK. I've tried booting from it with grub 0.97-12 from Debian install 
> media on 2 different pentium systems, but I get Error 18 in all cases. 
> I've tried forcing the BIOS geometry to 2100/16/63 and giving a 'geometry 
> hd0 2100 16 63' to grub, and likewise with 2096/16/63 and 'geometry hd0 
> 2096 16 63', but the result is the same. This is the only drive, and 
> device.map correctly has (hd0) /dev/hda.
> 
> What's going on? How can I troubleshoot further? Please Cc: me, I'm not on 
> the list.
> 
>                       Thanks
>                       Alexey
> 
> 
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