I tried adding chainloader +1 to grub.conf .
makeactiveWhen I tried to use it, I got
Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
You need to get a new(er) BIOS as the physical location where F14 is
located cannot be >used for booting by your current BIOS. Nothing can be done about this by Fedora, it is a >physical limitation of your system. Maybe putting a /boot partition below where your BIOS >can boot from could help (but I don't know if this is possible with your current system
configuration.)
Could the problem with using my boot partition with my Could I fix that by editing my F14's /etc/mtab ?
Neither of these options will help. Again, this is NOT a Fedora issue.
Some BIOS's are old >appened in the history of PC configurations (I remember the old 32MB boot issue...)
James McKenzie
James, You came in late to this thread.
In fact his problem was solved by 1)redoing his bootloader root (hd1,8) setup (hd1,8) 2) copying his f14 stanza to his f13 grub.conf
Your analysis may be correct re error 18, but that was when the OP was still badly floundering.
His last response to me was thank you thank you thank you
which I interpreted meaning he had successfully booted f14.
Jack
On 6/26/11 7:00 PM, jackson byers wrote:
I tried adding chainloader +1 to grub.conf .
makeactiveWhen I tried to use it, I got
Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
You need to get a new(er) BIOS as the physical location where F14 is
located cannot be >used for booting by your current BIOS. Nothing can be done about this by Fedora, it is a >physical limitation of your system. Maybe putting a /boot partition below where your BIOS >can boot from could help (but I don't know if this is possible with your current system >configuration.)
Could the problem with using my boot partition with my Could I fix that by editing my F14's /etc/mtab ?
Neither of these options will help. Again, this is NOT a Fedora
issue. Some BIOS's are old >appened in the history of PC configurations (I remember the old 32MB boot issue...)
James McKenzie
James, You came in late to this thread.
In fact his problem was solved by 1)redoing his bootloader root (hd1,8) setup (hd1,8) 2) copying his f14 stanza to his f13 grub.conf
Your analysis may be correct re error 18, but that was when the OP was still badly floundering.
Thank you. I try to stay out of discussions like this, but I've seen where folks installing 1TB drives cannot boot off of them when the physical number of cylinders is larger than their BIOS can handle. At least this problem was solved in a good manner.
James McKenzie