[ltp] GRUB disk geom problems

[Hartmut Meyer]

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Hi,

On Saturday 10 July 2004 05:50, sltp@rhythm.cx wrote:
> Hi. I'm running SuSE 9.1 on my T40. Today after I got home from work, GRUB
> mysteriously became unable to boot my machine. After powering up I'd get
> the GRUB command prompt rather than a menu. Attempting to manually boot my
> kernel went like this:
>
>   GRUB> root (hd0,3)
>   GRUB> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-....
>
>   Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.

[...]

> Anyone run into this? Any help is appreciated.

There is an article in the SUSE knowledge base about this:

  http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/03/fhassel_geom-error.html

But since you are sure that nothing has been changed on your setup (and I=20
assume grub was booting fine until now), it may just be enough to reinstall=
=20
grub from within the rescue system:

  mount /dev/hda4 /mnt
  chroot /mnt
  grub < /etc/grub.conf


Greetings from Bremen
hartmut

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