[nflug] Grub Error 18

[Robert Wolfe]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:20:17 -0400
Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> So you have 2 boot loaders installed? How are you switching between the 
> 2 boot loaders?
> 
> 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 
> > Home Page: http://www.codeshepherd/ 
> > Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ 

It looks like he has problems with it booting inside PARALLELS.  Might be a setting in Parallels that he may need to change with regards to disk size.

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