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08-03-2008	#1 (permalink)
aral Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 70	cylinder exceeds maximum supported ny bios Hello, I installed open suse 10.3 on an usb flash. During the installation I installed grub on sdb3 .When it asked me where I want my MBR I said I want it on the boot partition sdb3. sdb2 is the swap and sdb1 is a fat partition. When I try to boot from the flash it says "loading Grub .. root hd(1,2 ) /boot/message file not found" Then it shows me a text mode grub menu where I choose open suse and it gives me : error 18 : cylinder exceeds maximum alloowed by bios. Can somebody tell me how I could avoid this ? It's important for me .Thank you.
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08-12-2008	#2 (permalink)
Jonathan183 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 2,284	It sounds like you need to create a small boot sector at the beginning of the disk. Usually around 100MB is sufficient for this. The boot sector will contain the grub menu files and linux kernel.

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