[wellylug] Grub doesn't like LBA mode

[Bill Christiansen]

I wondered why whenever I installed a distro that used grub on one of my
pc's I would get a grub error 18 when I rebooted. My usual work around
was to replace the grub with lilo and that worked fine, however I just
discovered that if I change the hard drive mode in the bios from LBA to
normal then grub will also work fine. I was also surprised that I didn't
loose any data when I did this (I guess it just re-assigns logical
cylinders and heads on the drive). Not sure why grub is more fussy about
this than lilo.
Bill