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#1 2010-08-21 02:34:27

kandrews
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Registered: 2007-04-21
Posts: 119

Updated and now Grub Error 18

Hi,

I upgraded and then rebooted when I was half asleep and then GRUB gave me error 18:  Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.  The system was working fine before this and I am NOT dual booting.  I tried grub-install /dev/sda1 from install usb, but no luck.  I followed a forum thread to ubuntuforums and went into the GRUB prompt and ran:

find /boot/grub/stage1
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)

and then restarted.  No luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

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#2 2010-08-21 02:48:01

archlinuxsagi
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Registered: 2008-09-12
Posts: 259

Re: Updated and now Grub Error 18

your boot folder needs to be located in the first partition or portion of your hard disk. repartition your hard disk to do this.

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#3 2010-08-21 02:54:10

kandrews
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Registered: 2007-04-21
Posts: 119

Re: Updated and now Grub Error 18

Actually, I only have the one partition.  So that should satisfy your first partition condition, right?  It had worked for 3 months before this.

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#4 2010-08-22 16:33:57

joan
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Registered: 2008-09-20
Posts: 20

Re: Updated and now Grub Error 18

Which packages did you upgrade? I upgraded after 2 months and now I also have problems with the booting process https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103270 and do not know where to start looking at to repair things.

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#5 2010-08-26 09:55:35

archlinuxsagi
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Registered: 2008-09-12
Posts: 259

Re: Updated and now Grub Error 18

kandrews wrote:

Actually, I only have the one partition.  So that should satisfy your first partition condition, right?  It had worked for 3 months before this.

No.
The boot sector must not be very big.  Hence, you will need to repartition to have a boot partition and root partition.

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