I'm working on gentoo for 2 years now. I still have a dual boot with windows xp. Today (after many months) my sister needed windows. I rebooted but I got the strange error 18 on my screen. In documentation of grub it states that this is a problem with BIOS. Strangely enough there was no problem before. Any idea what could have caused this error? Maybe an update of grub?
my current version is: $grub --version grub (GNU GRUB 0.96) It is impossible to look in the logs because it might be a problem that exists for many months as I have never booted windows since... This is my grub.conf: $cat /boot/grub/grub.conf default 0 timeout 10 fallback 1 splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r9 root(hd0,0) kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/md0 floppy=no_acpi gentoo=nodevfs title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r6 root(hd0,0) kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0 floppy=no_acpi gentoo=nodevfs title=Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 fdisk of my 2 hdd: $fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 2551 14946 99570870 5 Extended /dev/hda5 2551 4375 14659281 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda6 4376 4388 104391 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda7 4389 10468 48837568+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda8 10469 14946 35969503+ fd Linux raid autodetect $fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 195 98248+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 196 238216 119962584 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 196 38755 19434208+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdc6 38756 67820 14648728+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc7 67821 68015 98248+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdc8 68016 164897 48828496+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc9 164898 238216 36952744+ fd Linux raid autodetect Plz help _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
