[nflug] Grub Error 18

[Deepan Chakravarthy]

Cyber Source wrote:
> I'm not familiar with rEFit. How do you switch into this "native" 
> mode? Is parallels part of rEFit? It sounds like you installed grub to 
> the partition and not the mbr of the drive. I have found grub to be a 
> very flexible boot loader and have done many configurations with it, 
> dual, triple boots, Linux with Linux, Linux with windows, Linux with 
> BeOS and windows but have never used it to boot MAC, which is what I 
> presume your trying to do? Give us more detail on exactly what your 
> doing and I'm sure I or someone on here can help.

By native mode I meant, native boot. I can boot to linux directly 
without using parallels,  I mean linux as the native operating system.  
Like how we run mac.  I have not install grub in MBR. Grub is installed 
in /dev/sda3  .  when I boot in native mode,   root option for grub is 
(hd0,2) . Via parallels  root option becomes (hd0,0) since parallels 
considers this partition as the only disk in the machine.  What other 
details do you need ?  thanks a lot for your help .




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> Deepan Chakravarthy wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Cyber Source 
>> <peter at thecybersource.com <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     So you have 2 boot loaders installed? How are you switching
>>     between the
>>     2 boot loaders?
>>
>>
>> Yes, I have rEFit and Grub installed. rEFit  transfers control to 
>> grub once I select linux.
>>  
>>  
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>>     Deepan wrote:
>>     > Hi All,
>>     > I have installed Fedora on Macbook. It works fine
>>     > when I boot it in native mode. However, when I
>>     > boot it via parallels, I get the following error.
>>     > Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum
>>     > supported by BIOS.  I do understand that this
>>     > error is thrown when Grub tries to read an address
>>     > beyond the end of BIOS translated area. Is this a
>>     > problem with Grub or BIOS ? My boot partition is
>>     > the first partition.
>>     > Regards
>>     > Deepan
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