Error 18 Select Cylinder Exceeds Maximum Supported By Bios Solaris
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have any idea what this means? For > more details see my other post from feb 27th. Thanks At the time of my search there was only ony entry on this forum on page 20 for feb 27th. However, Two thing to check for: 1. When installing DVD or CDRom's , using initial_install on new partition in the GUI installer or ttinstall on the command line shell from the dvd, do not use a negitive cyl rounding error in setting up Solaris2 and Windows partition (i.e. fdisk under Solaris2). 2. if you are using a Seagate or WD or Maxtor or some other partition manager https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989 that overrides the bios max cyl count go back the original bios info boot offset that get layed down on the HD. If you need a extra large disk support, upgrade the bios or it's time to buy a newer MB. plus the Intel or AMD chips all have newer features that support XEN, power management, CACHE, etc... you do not need anything expencive to run Solaris just snv_bxx 512meg http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.help/2008-01/msg00341.html or the dev dist 768 and 1 gig runs very nice with zfs, 2g for Xen or lots of Zones. This message posted from opensolaris.org Thread at a glance: Previous Message by Date: FileZilla on Solaris 10 Hi, I just bought a Sun Ultra 24 and it came with Solaris 10. I will be installing SXDE next week when the new version comes out. I installed FileZilla (ftp client) from sunfreeware.com and can run it as root. It works great. When I run it as a regular user, I get the following error: bash-3.00$ ./filezilla The program 'filezilla' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 195 error_code 11 request_code 148 minor_code 5) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) I searched google and found page where someone on OpenSUSE had this problem. He had to upgrade Xorg-server to fix a bug. http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/bug-in-opensuse-xorg-security-update I'm wo
Login: [x] Format For Printing -XML -Clone This Bug -Last Comment First Last Prev Next This bug is not in your last search results. Bug522029 - grub : Error 18: Selected cylinder https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522029 exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Summary: grub : Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum http://blogs.sungeek.net/unixwiz/2009/06/12/installing-solaris-on-a-large-harddrive/ supported by BIOS Status: CLOSED WONTFIX Aliases: None Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Classification: Red Hat Component: grub (Show other bugs) Sub Component: --- Version: 5.4 Hardware: All Linux Priority low Severity high TargetMilestone: rc TargetRelease: --- Assigned To: Václav Pavlín QA Contact: Release Test Team Docs Contact: URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Reopened Depends On: Blocks: Show dependency tree error 18 /graph Reported: 2009-09-09 04:25 EDT by Winfrid Tschiedel Modified: 2013-03-19 09:08 EDT (History) CC List: 1 user (show) gasmith See Also: Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix Doc Text: Story Points: --- Clone Of: Environment: Last Closed: 2013-03-19 09:08:59 EDT Type: --- Regression: --- Mount Type: --- Documentation: --- CRM: Verified Versions: Category: --- oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: Cloudforms Team: --- Attachments (Terms of Use) Add an attachment error 18 select (proposed patch, testcase, etc.) Groups: None (edit) Description Winfrid Tschiedel 2009-09-09 04:25:07 EDT Description of problem: grub cannot write BOOTRECORD into the partion - ends with Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-13.5 How reproducible: always - independant of the redhat linux distribution seen also with fedora 12, rhel-6 but not with NOVELL linux distributions Steps to Reproduce: 1. write on a system (with dmraid?) in the extended partition a bootrecord to a partition 2. 3. Actual results: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Expected results: grub writes bootrecord to the partion Additional info: I have a similar system, where I have no problems to write a bootrecord to a partition ( partition nimber >= 5 ) grub on the system in trouble : [root@rx220a ~]# uname -a Linux rx220a 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Mon Jun 1 15:52:58 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@rx220a ~]# rpm -qa | grep grub [root@rx220a ~]# grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] grub> device (hd0,1) /dev/mapper/pdc_bjfeeibeebp1 device (hd0,1) /de
box had failed. I bought a couple of new 500gb harddrives to replace the 80 that was in it. So I downloaded the newest update of Solaris 10 (update 7) and did the install. Everything worked perfect, then it rebooted. All I got was the "grub>" prompt. Nothing would let me boot it. I booted back off of the cdrom and updated the boot-archive, everything seemed fine, but it still would not boot off of the harddrive. So I tried to do it by hand at the grub> prompt: grub> kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot Error 18: selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios Great.. now what. It appears that you have to have the boot info in the first 1023 cylinders of the harddrive. Well this big 500GB harddrive has over 60,000+ cylinders on it. Guess what, the Solaris installer put the swap on 3-263 and then put the root on 58884 - some high number.. So obviously grub is going to have a problem. So how do you fix this. There is 2 possible ways that I can think of and possibly a third. The first would be for Sun to change the installer to not automatically place root at the end of the disk. The second is when you are getting ready to do the install, pre-layout the disks using format from the command line. The third is what I am trying, since the remaining of the disk has not been used yet, I am going to move the partitions around with dd. The first thing I did was delete the swap partition on slice 1. The second was to create a new temp partition on slice 3 that is the exact same size as slice 0. Now using dd I did the following: dd if=/dev/dsk/c0d0s0 of=/dev/dsk/c0d0s3 bs=4096k Hopefully this won't take too long as the partition is only 15gb in size. You could have done the same thing with tar and have both partitions mounted. Once the dd finishes. I will delete the slice 0 and recreate it starting at cylinder 3 and give it the same size as it was before, and then dd the info back. Once that is done, delete the temp slice and recreate a swap partition. Hopefully this works. Posted by unixwiz Tagg