[NBLUG/talk] Newbie and grub>

[Scott Doty]

I wish I knew more about grub...

I _do_ recommend that once you get the system booted, you switch over to
lilo.  Lilo gives you a graphical menu where it's easy to pick the os you
want to boot.

Did you happen to make a boot floppy when you installed?

 -Scott

On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 10:19:48PM -0700, Jennifer Tracy wrote:
> I just installed RedHat Linux 9.0 on a dual boot system with Windows XP 
> Professional.
> 
> At the end of the install I had the system reboot and now I an in grub> 
> land and NOT happy about it.
> 
> I managed to get it to boot into Windows with the chainloader, but I cannot 
> figure out how to get my kernel loaded so that I can boot into linux.
> 
> I have tried the following:
> 
> grub> kernel /vmlinux-2.4.20-8 (and variations there of)
> 
> and I get the following error:
> 
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thank you for your time,
> Jenn Tracy
> a.k.a Tiny Tyrant
> 
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