[SATLUG] dual boot

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Newberry, Julie S" <Newberry at uthscsa.edu>
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List" <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 2:10 PM
Subject: [SATLUG] dual boot


>I have a dual boot laptop with Suse and XP installed.  I got home from
> work yesterday and it said "Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum
> supported by BIOS".  This is the second time this has happened.  The
> laptop has been running just fine for weeks now and suddenly it crashed.
> Has anyone here experienced this problem?
>
> I am relatively new to the Linux world and would like to avoid having to
> reinstall both operating systems to fix this issue like I did last time.
> Obviously it was only a temporary fix if it happened again.
>
> Julie

Hi Julie -

Have you re-run grub or anything like that?  Recently installed any XP 
updates?  In other words, what's changed?

This is a Thinkpad, isn't it?

Thomas