Grub Error 18 Vmware
to Milestone grub-installer (Ubuntu) Edit Invalid Medium Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: grub-installer (Ubuntu) Filed here by: kenden When: 2005-09-29 Completed: 2007-06-02 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Invalid Medium Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description Ubuntu 5.10 Colony 5 (was probably already in 4.10, see below). Vmware 4.5.2 I created a 100gig virtal disk and booted Ubuntu. I created a 105mg partition ext3 and a 2 gigs swap, the ext3 partition before. Ubuntu installed with no problem, and after reboot, I get the error: GRUB Loading stage 1.5 Grub error 18. I have seen this error can be due to the HD configuration, so I went into the Vmware BIOS, and changed Large Disk Access Mode to "Other", but that didn't help. Still in the BIOS, I tried to change the Vmware virtual Hard Disk from "Auto" to "User", but I don't know the settings that I should put for the drive so I can't do it. This blog describe also the same problem with Ubuntu 4.10: http://www.marblestation.com/blog/?p=198 It says: "After tring to install Ubuntu en vmware, just after booting Grub fails with error 18. So a priori I won't be able to try the distro (etc)." Add tags Tag help kenden (kenden) wrote on 2005-09-30: #1 More info: I moved the vmware image on anoter machine with Vmware 5, and I have no problem with it, Ubuntu boots fine. So it seems there is only a problem with Vmware 4.5.2 (or other versions maybe). Also, this problem does not happen when installing Ubuntu on a IDE virtual h
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systemHardwareSoftwareDesktopServer & 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 Reference From Gentoo https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB_Error_Reference Wiki Jump to: navigation, search The objective of this article is to http://wiki.mbirth.de/know-how/software/linux/boot-partition.html 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 wait... 2.1 Situation 2.2 grub error 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 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This grub error 18 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 the like according to the specific systems specs. Follow the solutions provided by this do
exceeds maximum supported by BIOS or Error 16: Inconsistent Filesystem Structure This is because the initrd image is created (maybe only partially) outside the 1024-cylinder boundary accessible by the VMware BIOS. The only stress-free solution is to move /boot to its own partition directly at the beginning of the virtual disk. There is a nice how-to from Tek Guru. So use your favourite partitioner (I prefer GPartEd from the SysRescCD.) and move the beginning of the first partition about 100 MiB to the right to add a new ext3 partition in front of it. 100 MiB should be enough for most people. You may need to use fdisk’s expert menu to fix the partition ordering if you can’t live with a /dev/sda3 at the beginning of the disk. Afterwards mount both partitions, the future /boot and the system partition and copy the contents of /boot to the new and empty partition. Rename the old boot-folder and create a new empty one. Edit the fstab and add following line: /dev/sda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 1 (Tek Guru used ro here to mount the partition read-only. As Ubuntu often updates the initrd, rw is the better way.) Now open the grub/menu.lst and remove the /boot in front of the entries. Since grub sees the plain partition, everything is in the root directory at this point. Maybe you also have to change the root hd(0,X) if your X is not 0 (= the first partition). Using the rescuecd, you can now boot your system using the rescuecd boothd=/dev/sda2 (root=/dev/sda2 in recent versions) parameter. If the system is up, run grub-install /dev/sda to finally install grub correctly. You should now be able to boot. You can use the same technique to get around the 137 GB / 128 GiB limit of some older mainboards. Just create a /boot partition at the beginning and after the kernel has loaded the controller module, the (BIOS-)limit is gone. ← Audio Bi