Re: GAH! Kernel release 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 caused me problems!

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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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