NautilusIII
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 Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Booting on a second primary partition after 8GB |
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Hi,
I have the following partitions on a SATA RAID0:
1st Primary: 120GB with Windows
2nd Primary: 120GB with Linux
3rd Primary: 1GB Swap
4th Logical: 300GB for Data
/boot is on the 2nd primary
dmraid etc. is all configured. So I thought I am set, just wanted to install GRUB and thought that with newer boards there won't be a problem with booting after the 8GB limit. But what I get is:
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds max supported by BIOS
Is there anyway to fix this?
I have a Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe board...
Thanks.
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Update.
This works:
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If the previous method of installing GRUB failed, then you will need to create a GRUB boot disk and install GRUB natively. For this you will need a floppy disk.
First you will need to install GRUB onto the floppy disk (note that this will erase all contents of the floppy disk!):
# cd /boot/grub
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
#
Now reboot your computer and boot from your new GRUB boot disk. Once started, GRUB will show the command-line interface. First, set the GRUB's root device to the partition containing the boot directory:
grub> root (hd0,0)
If you are not sure which partition actually holds this directory, use the find command:
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
This will search for the file name /boot/grub/stage1 and show the devices which contain the file. Once you've set the root device correctly, run the setup command:
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"...succeeded
Done.
You should be able to restart your computer now (or finish your installation and restart) and GRUB appear in it's glory. Even more importantly, you should be able to boot into Linux and get a prompt.
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