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
