GAH! Kernel release 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 caused me problems!
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 14 18:28:05 UTC 2005
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:23:52AM -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I yum updated to kernel 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4, rebooted, and was not able to
> continue because the error message says:
>
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
> Press any key to continue
>
> Selecting the same kernel repeats the error, so I had to grub-select my
> previous version: 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4 in order to sucessfully boot.
>
> My BIOS and hardware is old (I have a VA Linux Systems 501) and I may not
> have any BIOS upgrade options and I have updated to latest BIOS this vendor
> supports. If I am wrong, please let me know. If I am not, any suggestions are
> appreciated but suggestions to get a new computer is not an option since I am
> too poor to do so :-(
Your /boot partition extends past an area that the BIOS can read.
(Probably the ~500MB mark ?)
There's not many good options here. Your best bet is to reinstall and
create a smaller /boot that has all of its space guaranteed to be
in that low cylinder range.
Dave
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