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

Wednesday, 14 December 2005

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From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]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

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