RE: error 18

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Before this event, did your Gentoo system startup normally? And more
importantly can you boot the system using a boot disk from either
operating system?

Please note that your release of GRUB just might, might mind you, be a
customized version of GRUB that differs slightly from the vanilla
version available from the appropriate locations. You'd have to check
the source locations for their delivered version of GRUB to see if
they supplied any patches, which would be applied at some point during
its creation, and in this case, we can't help you that much. This
becomes evident if you were to see a splash image before the process
starts booting.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
[mailto:bug-
> address@hidden On Behalf Of
Koen Segers
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:04 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: error 18
> 
>       I'm working on gentoo for 2 years now. I still have a dual
boot with windows
> xp. Today (after many months) my sister needed windows. I rebooted
but I
> got the strange error 18 on my screen. In documentation of grub it
states
> that this is a problem with BIOS. Strangely enough there was no
problem
> before. Any idea what could have caused this error? Maybe an update
of
> grub?
> 
> my current version is:
> $grub --version
> grub (GNU GRUB 0.96)
> 
> It is impossible to look in the logs because it might be a problem
that
> exists for many months as I have never booted windows since...
> 
> This is my grub.conf:
> $cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
> default 0
> timeout 10
> fallback 1
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> 
> title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r9
> root(hd0,0)
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/md0
floppy=no_acpi
> gentoo=nodevfs
> 
> title=gentoo linux 2.6.12-r6
> root(hd0,0)
> kernel (hd1,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/md0
floppy=no_acpi
> gentoo=nodevfs
> 
> 
> title=Windows XP
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> 
> 
> fdisk of my 2 hdd:
> $fdisk -l /dev/hda
> Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        2550    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            2551       14946    99570870    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5            2551        4375    14659281   fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> /dev/hda6            4376        4388      104391   82  Linux swap /
Solaris
> /dev/hda7            4389       10468    48837568+  fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> /dev/hda8           10469       14946    35969503+  fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> 
> $fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> Disk /dev/hdc: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1   *           1         195       98248+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdc2             196      238216   119962584    5  Extended
> /dev/hdc5             196       38755    19434208+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hdc6           38756       67820    14648728+  fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> /dev/hdc7           67821       68015       98248+  82  Linux swap /
Solaris
> /dev/hdc8           68016      164897    48828496+  fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> /dev/hdc9          164898      238216    36952744+  fd  Linux raid
> autodetect
> 
> Plz help
> 
> 
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