suse e版error 18错误

今天刚下的SUSE,VMWARE装的虚拟机,分配了2000M内存,50G硬盘,硬盘分配在WINDOWS的E盘里,安装一切正常,重新引导的时候GRUB出现ERROR 18错误,重装也无法解决,希望各位帮忙,谢谢....

刚才在GOOGLE之后发现有人说安装DEBIAN的时候也出现GRUB 18错误,估计是分区太大认不到,他说他把BOOT分得靠前一点就解决了 出现这个问题就是/BOOT太靠后....

不知道什么意思,希望各位能帮个忙,虽然很认真读过LINUX分区的文档,依然不懂他说的什么意思....

来自MARK的BLOG 虽然不太懂什么意思...英文不是很好,大家参考下
A few days ago, I finally managed to solve a problem that had been preventing me from installing SUSE Linux 10.0 on my IBM ThinkPad T40 for the last couple of weeks. My problem was, that the first stage of setup ran with no difficulties at all but after the initial reboot I was greeted with the following error:
GRUB Loading stage1.5…
GRUB loading, please wait…
Error 18
GRUB error 18 means “selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS” but as the disk is the original one supplied with the PC, I thought that was unlikely to be an issue. There is, however, another variable in the equation with when using a ThinkPad.
Rather than supplying recovery CDs with its notebooks, Lenovo (IBM) positions its ThinkVantage software products as a differentiator and a reason to charge a premium price for its hardware - actually, my ThinkPad is by far and away the best hardware I have access to - comparable Dell machines have been very poorly built, although the HP (Compaq) and Fujitsu-Siemens equipment that I use has been pretty good. Part of the ThinkVantage product range is the rescue and recovery with rapid restore software, combined with the Access IBM key which uses a hidden partition on the disk - the Access IBM pre-desktop area or hidden protected area (HPA).
It was this hidden partition that caused me difficulties. There are three options for controlling access to the predesktop area in the BIOS - secure, normal and disabled. Normal (the default setting) allows changes to the pre-desktop area but the contents are hidden from the operating system whilst secure prohibits all user- or software-initiated changes and disabled makes the pre-desktop area visible and reclaimable for use.
After trying various pre-desktop area BIOS settings I noticed that the amount of disk space available to SUSE varied between 34.2GB in secure mode and 37.2GB in normal mode. It seems that even with the normal selection in BIOS, SUSE setup had been able to detect the full disk, and had installed the kernel on a section of the disk reserved for the pre-desktop area (which was then unavailable at boot time - causing the GRUB error).
In summary, if installing SUSE (or any operating system I guess) on a ThinkPad, set the predesktop area to secure before commencing installation - Sharad Popli has more information about this in his SUSE Linux, WinXP and Access IBM on the ThinkPad T43 article. I now have SUSE installed, but have a corrupt HPA. Thankfully my PC is still under warranty so Lenovo are sending me some recovery CDs without charge (my experience of their technical support has been excellent).
Overall, I was impressed with the SUSE setup - very straightforward compared to my earlier experiences of installing Unix and Unix-like operating systems. I also know (from my limited tinkering with Sun Solaris) that I like the GNOME desktop - let’s see how I get on with using the product over the next few weeks (and how it stacks up against the competition, as I’m attending a Red Hat Enterprise Linux course all of this week).

继续...又找到点有用的东西...
Hello

Somebody know how to resolve GRUB error 18 ? I tried install Novell Suse 10. First CD boot with no problems. After install 1 CD I must reboot. Next when linux try to boot show this error. I found some info : that is "partition problem" but I'm novice in using Linux system
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Problem resolved :

changed HDD Access in BIOS from AUTO to LBA
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遗憾的是我用的VMWARE装虚拟机,使用F2进入BOIS以后找不到HDD 或者LBA这样的字样,不知道什么原因....

再继续...
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml
这个页面有详细的GRUB错误解决方法 关于ERROR18他说
Solution

This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general).

Try an update for your BIOS and/or move your boot partition to the front (or at least into the appropriate range).

也许是我虚拟机版本没升级导致BISO版本太老,或者分区太大,让我用8GB玩SUSE是不有点...
没办法,为了让他跑起来 我去试验一下,把结果贴出来...

问题解决~更换了VM最新的5.5.3版本,所有问题解决~ 如果有硬盘安装的朋友 尝试下升级BIOS的方法....

强啊！！
2000M内存分给虚拟机？？

想做服务器 又怕把以前的分区搞乱了 呵呵````

现在又有新问题,它上不了网了,以前用FC4虚拟机用桥接上网完全正常,现在用SUSE桥接上不了网 重新配制网卡DHCP也不行呵呵....看来又得费点心思解决这问题了,苦啊````

想做服务器 又怕把以前的分区搞乱了 呵呵````

现在又有新问题,它上不了网了,以前用FC4虚拟机用桥接上网完全正常,现在用SUSE桥接上不了网 重新配制网卡DHCP也不行呵呵....看来又得费点心思解决这问题了,苦啊````

怎样的网络环境？
宿主机（真实环境）是什么系统？
如果用桥接，虚拟机网卡和宿主机网卡是平等的。如果是 host-only 或者 NAT 就是宿主机，可以把虚拟机中的IP设为 vmnet1 或者 vmnet8 同一网段；网关就是宿主机上的 vmnet1 或者 vmnet8 。ifconfig 看一下，如果是windows用ipconfig /all 或者打开网络连接看看。
如果访问外网用的是需要输入帐号/密码，要拔号的，需要在拔号连接上设置共享。linux中不知道怎么设的。

宿主是2003系统 IP尾数是171 网关是169 掩码是255.255.255.248.空出来一个172的IP,用桥接方式,在两块虚拟网卡里设置172IP网关169,掩码255.255.255.248 然后在SUSE的YAST管理中设置IP172 掩码255.255.255.248,成功联网,但不能解析域名.在GOOGLE找了个文章:
"这半年我都一直觉得我这里的DNS解析不是很顺畅，速度慢不说还有些站点不能解析，期间换了不少的DNS没几个理想的，也许是国内没有根节点的缘故，您是否也有我一样的烦恼呢，那们请试试这个OpenDNS。先看看它有什么特色：

OpenDNS 可以让你访问国外网站的时候，域名解析的速度更快。
OpenDNS 可以帮助你过滤一些 phishing 站点。
如果你把 .com 输错成 .cmo，OpenDNS 会自动帮助你矫正过来。
这一切都是全免费的。
要了解其详细的原理，可以看这里的说明

Windows下的用户只需要将DNS设置成一下即可,更详细的添加方法请查看这里：

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Ubuntu的用户，直接修改/etc/resolv.conf，将以上的dns添加进去，当然也可以直接使用网络管理器修改。在resolv.conf添加的格式如下：

nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 208.67.222.222"
按照文章的方法添加NAMESERVER成功解析域名,呵呵```大功告成,让我很欣慰的是,在安装SUSE的时候提前找了好多VNC的技术文档,结果全没用上,呵呵~SUSE自带VNC,太舒服了.现在又要开始MYSQL的研究了,头疼ING....感谢帮忙的哥们!