[nflug] GRUB error 18

[Steve Petersen]

I've attached my /boot/grub/menu.lst file.  Thanks again.
Steve

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
wrote:

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