Due to an unforeseen problem I have reset my Bios in the mobo and end up with the same error of
"Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum support by BIOS"
I discovered the hard disks were read in a mode different to LBA after the reset. After I fixed the Bios I still got the problem. I managed to ask Grub to display the /boot/grub/menu.lst of the partition I want to boot and manually typed in each line of command to get the Linux booted.
So try it yourself.
Say if you want to boot a Linux in the 56th partition of the 2nd disk it will be (hd1,55)
Then just type each line starting from the "kernel" statement, then "initrd" line and finish with the "boot" statement.Code:root (hd1,55) cat /boot/grub/menu.lst




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