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to Fix the Grub Error 18... Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode May 26th, 2008 #1 ricky_bains View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date May 2008 Beans 11 How to Fix the Grub Error 18... freinds i was havin windows XP and SUSE 9 dual booting running successfully but after installing xbuntu 8.04 LTS I m stucked with this bootloader problem the grub loading please wait error 17 whole error is GRUB Loading Stage 1.5. GRUB Loading, Please wait Error 18 my partition table is : Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb2 1276 2550 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb3 2551 4865 18595237+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 2551 2600 401593+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 2601 3906 10490413+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 3907 4161 2048256 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdb8 4162 4865 5654848+ 83 Linux kindly help me how can i fix this problem so that m able to boot properly again. thanks aman Adv Reply May 26th, 2008 #2 Kevbert View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date Dec 2007 Location Shepperton, UK. Beans 2,489 DistroUbuntu Development Release Re: How to Fix the Grub Error 18... Try a Super Grub disk. It can be found here: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Adv Reply May 26th, 2008 #3 Gunman1982 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Tea Glorious Tea! Join Date Apr 2008 Location Germany - Berlin Beans 340 Re: How to Fix the Grub Error 18... Read the part at the end. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB Adv Reply May 26th, 2008 #4 ricky_bains View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date May 2008 Beans 11 Re: How to Fix the Grub Error 18... Originally Posted by Kevbert Try a Super Grub disk. It can be found here: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ but i said it was working fine with windows XP and SU
because of the advertised back-up from Novell. The installation went according to a couple of reports I have read until the first boot from the hard disk. I have tried every suggested way to install
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this system and always end up with the same results, namely Grub loading stage 1.5
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Grub loading please wait Error 18 with a flashing cursor That is as far as it goes. What this has effectively done is grub error 17 windows 10 rendered my computer unusable as I cannot now get into Windows and have had to bring an old computer back into use for this email.
A Because Grub has to fit in a small space on the https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=808284 disk, there is no room for helpful error messages, but 'Error 18' translates as 'Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS'. In other words, your BIOS - which initialises hardware - is unable to handle a hard drive this large. Windows is able to boot because the Windows partition is at the start of the distro's disk, within the area handled by the BIOS. This is not a limitation of Linux, which hasn't even started to http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/234 load, but your hardware. You would see the same problem if you tried to install two versions of Windows, say 98 and XP. There are a few ways to deal with this. You could work around the problem by making your Windows partition smaller (it is impossible to say how small without knowing details of your BIOS and hard disk) and telling the SUSE partitioner to create a separate /boot partition. This ensures that the files Grub needs are at the start of the Linux partitions, hopefully within the area handled by the BIOS. Once the bootloader has started, the BIOS limitations are irrelevant. A better option is to check your motherboard manufacturer's website for an update to the BIOS, which could make this problem disappear. A third solution, which isn't ideal but would give instant access to your operating systems, is to boot from the installation CD. The first option on the initial menu is to boot from hard disk, which will take you to the Grub bootloader screen, bypassing the need for the BIOS to boot the disk. To restore the Windows bootloader, booting from the Windows CD in rescue mode and run fdisk /mbr for Windows 9x, or fixmbr for Windows XP. Related solutionsInstalling Mozilla plugins on SUSESoundBlaster Live not working in SUSE LinuxSUSE cannot see other distro filesDual-booting Linux with SUSESamba onsystemHardwareSoftwareDesktopServer & SecurityProject & Community Tools What links hereRelated changesSpecial pagesPrintable versionPermanent linkPage informationBrowse properties User Create accountLog in Toggle navigation PageDiscussion View source more History GRUB Error https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB_Error_Reference Reference From Gentoo Wiki Jump to: navigation, search The objective of this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64107 article is to list problems and errors that may occur in certain situations when using the GRUB Legacy bootloader. All these solutions have been acquired through the cooperation of users on the Gentoo Forums. Contents 1 Starting notes 1.1 Acknowledgements 1.2 Disclaimer warning 2 GRUB loading, please error 17 wait... 2.1 Situation 2.2 Solution 3 GRUB Error 12 3.1 Situation 3.2 Solution 4 GRUB error 15 4.1 Situation 4.2 Solution - Initial configuration 4.3 Solution - Booting an entry 5 GRUB error 17 5.1 Situation 5.2 Solution 6 GRUB error 18 6.1 Situation 6.2 Solution 7 GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... 7.1 Situation 7.2 Solution 8 grub error 17 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time 8.1 Situation 8.2 Solution 9 When installing GRUB, it just hangs 9.1 Situation 9.2 Solution 10 Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel 10.1 Situation 10.2 Solution 11 GRUB just shows a GRUB prompt 11.1 Situation 11.2 Solution 12 Could not find device for /boot/boot: not found or not a block device 12.1 Situation 12.2 Solution 13 The system reboots after hitting return at the GRUB menu 13.1 Situation 13.2 Solution 14 After hitting the Enter (Return) key at the GRUB menu, the screen blanks out 14.1 Situation 14.2 Solution 15 Missing GRUB image 15.1 Situation 15.2 Solution 16 Failing To boot Windows from a second hard drive 16.1 Situation 16.2 Solution 17 GRUB segfaults when trying to install 17.1 Situation 17.2 Solution Starting notes Acknowledgements Many thanks to Earthwings, penetrode, loyaltonone, pilla, airhead, nephros, yamakawa and all the others for the suggestions on the original thread. Disclaimer warning The examples provided are just examples. Be sure to change partition numbers and th
Member From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 2008-08-20 Posts: 202 [SOLVED] Grub error 18 - cannot boot to Windows Earlier today I tried to install Arch 64bit (I had 32bit earlier) with kdemod to test new KDE4.2. However, after installation I could not boot neither Arch nor Windows. Grub appeared, but every single option gave me an error. I can't remember anymore which error it was, but It doesn't matter anymore. I thought I had made a really stupid and basic mistake while installing, I just didn't know what.I wanted to test KDE4.2 so much so I installed Kubuntu (yeah, this topic is not related to Arch Linux, I hope that somebody can help me though, move this topic to somewhere else if it doesn't belong here ). Installation was fine, booting to Kubuntu was fine (and upgrading to KDE4.2 was fine), but booting to Windows was not. It gave me a following error:Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOSI googled a bit and found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18 I reinstalled Kubuntu using /dev/sdb1 as /boot and /dev/sdb2 as / (/dev/sdb3 is windows and /dev/sdb4 is my game partition, ntfs). Before this I had /dev/sdb1 as / and /dev/sdb2 as swap (now I have no swap at all, my 4GB RAM should be enough). The only difference was that at first grub gave me error 15 (I fixed it with Kubuntu LiveCD). After that - no difference.I need Windows for playing. That's why it's very important that I can use it. [SOLVED] In addition, I should say that /dev/sda is a separated hard drive which is encrypted with Truecrypt. (I said this because I think that Kubuntu tried to install grub on (hd0)...) When I tried to mount this hard drive with Kubuntu, it couldn't do it. I wanted to test mounting on Windows to check if it is just Kubuntu's problem. If not, I'm fucked because this hard drive contains VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT files. [/SOLVED]I really need help, please. If somebody can help me, (s)he is my hero. Last edited by Exitium (2009-01-29 14:42:32) Offline #2 2009-01-28 21:04:38 Exitium Member From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: 2008-08-20 Posts: 202 Re: [SOLVED] Grub error 18 - cannot boot to Windows Oops, I forgot:menu.lst:(Yup, a lot of comments, Ubuntu style)# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) # grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), # grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub # and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/. ## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. #