You are right .... correct partitioning solved the issue thx :-) ervin
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 456M 118M 315M 28% / varrun 252M 40K 252M 1% /var/run varlock 252M 4,0K 252M 1% /var/lock udev 252M 52K 252M 1% /dev devshm 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm lrm 252M 19M 234M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.15-29-386/volatile /dev/hda3 1,8G 33M 1,7G 2% /tmp /dev/hda6 17G 303M 16G 2% /usr /dev/hda5 17G 280M 16G 2% /var On 19/11/2007, Brian Candler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:35:48PM +0100, ervin wrote: > > The PXE boot went fine and I installed the GRUB loader on the 40GB HD > > as you can see above. > > Changes were made according to this guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Soekrins > > > > However booting afterwards gives me the GRUB error 18 ..... it's a > > minimal install on a full ext3 formatted HDrive. > > > > --------------------------- The GRUB manual says: > > ------------------------------------------- > > "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. > > > > This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block > > address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally > > happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for > > (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general)." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > How did you partition your 40GB drive? > > As the error says, you need to ensure that your kernel is within a partition > at the "start" of the disk, i.e. below cylinder 1024. Depending on the > geometry settings this might be the first 8GB, or it might be less. > > Use 'fdisk /dev/hda' followed by 'p' to see the geometry and the partition > table (assuming the drive is available as /dev/hda when you do this) > > The normal solution to this problem is to repartition your hard drive so > that /boot is the first small partition (/dev/hda1, say 100MB) and then the > rest is whatever you want - perhaps /dev/hda2 for swap and /dev/hda3 for > the root partition (/) > > HTH, > > Brian. > -- mvh/best regards ervin _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
