>From what I can gather, this occurs when GRUB2 in Ubuntu 9.10 has to read across 2 drives. GRUB2 seems to be rather buggy.
I have found that GRUB2 is intolerably slow when reading across 2 hard drives. You may find a solution if you do a clean install of 9.10 - although I cannot promise that. I have abandoned 9.10 (except in VirtualBox and in the Netbook Remix for the Eee PCs). There is plenty about this on the net. Andre 2009/12/14 Paul Gear <p...@libertysys.com.au> > Chris Taylor wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:58:55 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > > > > Chris Taylor wrote: > > > I get this message now and again when I start my computer "Error 18 > Selected cylinders exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. can anyone help > > > If it only happens intermittently, you may have a hardware problem which > causes the hard disk to report the wrong number of cylinders. > > > > Thanks for your input Paul > This only started to happen after doing a online upgrade to 9.10 from > 9.04. > > Was thinking of doing clean install with 9.10 any thoughts? > > My knowledge on this is not comprehensive, but would expect a clean > install to have no effect. Perhaps a grub reinstall might help, but i doubt > that even. > > Most likely it is something to do with your hardware or BIOS settings. Did > you change your SATA settings? Some BIOSes allow selection of EHCI or ATA > emulation, and one might work better than the other for you. > > Paul > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > >
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