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

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>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel B. Thurman
>Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:38 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: RE: GAH! Kernel release 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 caused me problems!
>
>
>>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave Jones
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:28 AM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: GAH! Kernel release 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 caused me problems!
>>
>>
>>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
>>
>>-- 
>
>I have everything installed in a single large partition.  Why is it,
>that this was not a problem in the previous releases until now?  Why
>the requirement that /boot be in it's own partition?  This makes no
>real sense to me other than to protect partitions from one another or
>for performance concerns but if I choose to put everything in one
>partition, why not?  Perhaps you are telling me that pervious releases
>just *happened* to work until the /boot files were no longer guaranteed
>to be in the lower partition space due to changes and/or kernel updates
>that it has creeped outside of the BIOS ability to read files beyond a
>certain size limitiation, i.e. the inodes are outside of it's 
>bit-range?
>
>Thanks for responding,
>Dan
>

I forgot to add: I am ABLE to use the PREVIOUS kernel version to
boot my linux system - so WHY does this one work and not the current
one!?!?!?

Dan

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