Error while installing Linux from harddisk

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:58 am

Installing from a hard disk is not supported. You may, or more likely may not, succeed.
Is your computer old?
Sounds like it's rather old and you put grub to far "into" the disk - probably the 8 GB limit (or 1024 limit)

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:58 pm

It's old (to be a computer

) 256 MB is a problem - it is barely possible to boot the live cd with that
You could create a boot partition to help a bit

Error 20: Select cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

This indicates you are to "far into" the disk, unless it's an erroneous error