Thanks again for your help - yes, when I pick one of the kernels it boots.<br><br>uname -l output;<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Linux liza 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux </blockquote><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Cyber Source <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does anything in that grub file boot?<br>
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Steve Petersen wrote:<br>
> I've attached my /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Thanks again.<br>
> Steve<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Cyber Source<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Show me your /boot/grub/menu.lst file<br>
><br>
> Steve Petersen wrote:<br>
> > Thanks for the help! I'm afraid I can't make much of it though.<br>
> As I<br>
> > say, I've been using linux for about 10 years, but that doesn't mean<br>
> > I've been /understanding/ much of it. I have only the vaguest grasp<br>
> > of UUIDs and cylinder geometry. I don't know what the "stanzas" are<br>
> > and I'm not sure what you mean by "the actual drive /dev use"<br>
> (unless<br>
> > you just mean /dev/hda, which I believe it is, though there is a<br>
> > second hard drive I mount separately).<br>
> ><br>
> > Below I give the "fdisk -l" output. Thanks again for any help.<br>
> > Steve<br>
> ><br>
> > Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes<br>
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders<br>
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
> > Disk identifier: 0x0008fac7<br>
> ><br>
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 38560 309733168+ 83 Linux<br>
> > /dev/hda2 38561 38913 2835472+ 5 Extended<br>
> > /dev/hda5 38561 38913 2835441 82<br>
> Linux swap<br>
> > / Solaris<br>
> ><br>
> > Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes<br>
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders<br>
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
> > Disk identifier: 0x000b8293<br>
> ><br>
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
> > /dev/hdb1 1 19103 153444816 83 Linux<br>
> > /dev/hdb2 19104 19457 2843505 5 Extended<br>
> > /dev/hdb5 19104 19457 2843473+ 82<br>
> Linux swap<br>
> > / Solaris<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Cyber Source<br>
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<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > Whatever the bios is told as a boot device, if it's a hard<br>
> drive, it<br>
> > will go to "first" partition on that drive that has a "boot"<br>
> flag<br>
> > (fdisk<br>
> > -l), it will be the partition with a "*" declared.<br>
> > First off, I would suspect a problem with the CHS<br>
> > (cylinder,head,sector)<br>
> > geometry that the drive has or is being interpreted by the<br>
> bios as, to<br>
> > the kernel.<br>
> > Second off, I would think it's how the stanzas are written<br>
> and the<br>
> > UUID's (always a problem I've seen) are being used. Try changing<br>
> > to the<br>
> > actual drive /dev use.<br>
> > Tell me those things and I'll tell you my reasoning later, if<br>
> > applicable, sorry lazy typer.....<br>
> > Steve Petersen wrote:<br>
> > > Hi NFLUGgers,<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I've been using some form of linux for about 10 years, but I'm<br>
> > still a<br>
> > > newbie in many ways, and I wonder if you can help me. For<br>
> some time<br>
> > > now my home desktop computer - which has Ubuntu 7.10 on it and<br>
> > nothing<br>
> > > else - won't boot any of the more recent kernels the<br>
> update-manager<br>
> > > downloads. It gives me<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Error 18: selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported<br>
> by BIOS<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > until I choose in GRUB an old enough kernel that BIOS can<br>
> reach,<br>
> > > apparently. I don't know if I have a separate boot<br>
> partition; it's<br>
> > > however Ubuntu set it up default. (No separate boot<br>
> partition shows<br>
> > > up on the 'mount' command - but would it?) I also don't know<br>
> > what my<br>
> > > motherboard is - that's where the BIOS lives, right? As<br>
> you see I'm<br>
> > > still pretty ignorant of some basic computing concepts.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Anyway this has been going on for over a year, probably,<br>
> but the<br>
> > > kernel's old enough now that (without good evidence either<br>
> way) I'm<br>
> > > starting to worry it'll be sub-optimal in noticeable ways.<br>
> It's<br>
> > > 2.6.17-10-generic, though /boot lists versions as recent as<br>
> > > 2.6.22-14-generic.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Steve<br>
> > ><br>
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