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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 ...
  1. 08-03-2008 #1
    aral
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    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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  2. 08-12-2008 #2
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    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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