Re: Error 18: exceeds maximum supported by BIOS :P

From: Darrell Stec (darrell_stec_at_webpagesorcery.com)
Date: 09/03/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:44:33 -0400

After serious contemplation, on or about Friday 02 September 2005 8:58 am
stewart2@iinet.net.au wrote:

> Installed Suse 9.2 over XP and was hoping to dual boot partitions.
> resized (XP) NTFS to 15 and 20 for Suse on a 40 gb drive.
>
> I get this error when I try to boot Suse
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> I can't use a floppy drive because my notebook doesn't have one.
>
> Please help i'm only a beginner. :)
>
> cheers

Did the installation install GRUB or LILO as the boot manager? Did you use
something like Disk Manager or Partition Magic to set up the partitions?
They can add some weird configurations to the hard drive.

Did you remember to first preform a Scandisk and Defrag in Safe Mode of your
WinXP before installing SuSE? 

-- 
Later,
Darrell Stec      darstec@neo.rr.com
Webpage Sorcery
http://webpagesorcery.com
We Put the Magic in Your Webpages