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Links Distrowatch Bugs: Ubuntu PPAs: Ubuntu Web Upd8: Ubuntu OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu Insights Planet Ubuntu Activity Page Please read grub error 18 selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios before SSO login Advanced Search Forum The Ubuntu Forum Community Ubuntu Official Flavours Support New to Ubuntu [SOLVED] Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Having an Issue With Posting ? Do you want to help us debug the posting issues ? < is the place to report it, thanks ! Results 1 to 6 of 6 Thread: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode November 16th, 2009 #1 asuastrophysics View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Dipped in Ubuntu Join Date Feb 2009 Location Boone, NC Beans 518 DistroUbuntu Studio 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Hey everyone, My desktop computer powering my stereo crashed randomly (that's weird for Ubuntu!), and on the next boot, I got this message from GRUB: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS. Press ENTER to continue. I pressed enter and it booted up just fine. Is this the beginnings of a failing HDD? The drive is only 6 months old. I didn't change any settings in GRUB, nor have I made any system changes. Thanks for any help in advance! "Be who you are and say what you feel because those that mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind." Ubuntu Registered User #29486 Adv Reply November 16th, 2009 #2 101011010010 View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message A Carafe of Ubuntu Join Date May 2009 Location UK BeansHidden! DistroUbuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Re: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Hello there. If your Dual-Booting there's an article on the Linux Questions Wiki, that explains t
we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Solved: grub error 18; Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Discussion in 'Linux and Unix' started by jrbuergel, Aug 2, 2011. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Advertisement jrbuergel Jim Thread Starter Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Messages: 772 The internal Linux and XP do boot fine, but all 5 Linux installed on the external sata drive do not boot, but give grub error 18; "Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS", but the partitions do look okay when viewed from either a windows https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989 XP Linux file system tool, or from booted into one of my internal drive Linux and from that newer disk utility, such as in Fedora 13 or 14. After more google searching I did find out that this issue is caused by a limitation in older motherboards BIOS, which my computer is fairly old as a 5-06 Gateway. This limit is that older BIOS will only search for boot files https://forums.techguy.org/threads/solved-grub-error-18-selected-cylinder-exceeds-maximum-supported-by-bios.1010466/ in the first part of the drive. So the solution is either to flash a update into the BIOS, or create a separate boot partition near the beginning of the hard drive. The weird thing is that all my external drive Linux have been booting up just fine for quite some time now. jrbuergel, Aug 2, 2011 #1 Sponsor saikee Joined: Jun 11, 2004 Messages: 3,782 This error has one cure if your 5 Linux are store at the end of a 2TB external hard disk where Grub1 would not be able to access and the cure is to use Grub2. If this isn't your case read on. However Grub1 has a bug and it is quite common to see this error if you use a Grub1 version newer than the one in the internal hard disk which always boots first. It occurs if you pass the PC control from an older Grub1 to a newer Grub1. Although Grub1 has stopped maintenance after the 0.97 version many distros doctored it for their own purpose and their work may not be thorough. You could overcome this problem by using the latest Grub1 in the internal hard disk. If you see Grub prompt with v0.97 it would be th
supported by BIOS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi, I am running Jaunty Jackalope on a new machine and after a recent update I got the following message when trying to reboot: Error 18 - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/93844 Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS After reading some of the info on Grub error 18 I decided to create a separate boot partition, as suggested. However, when trying to use Gparted from the live CD to create some space ahead of /sda1, Gparted would run for a while and then crash. The crash message says: "e2fsck crashed with SIGSEGV in qsort" So now I am error 18 stuck, unable to boot from HDD and unable to create new partitions (the other partitions on the disk work fine with Gparted). Could all of this be due to corrupt /sda1 partition? Since I am pretty new at this I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! Ludmil Question information Language: English Edit question Status: Answered For: Ubuntu grub Edit question Assignee: No assignee Edit question error 18 selected Last query: 2009-12-12 Last reply: 2009-12-12 Related bugs Link existing bug Related FAQ: None Link to a FAQ actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said on 2009-12-12: #1 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=996713 Ludmil (ludmil) said on 2009-12-12: #2 Hi, I ran fdisk and here's what it shows: ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000adb2d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 799442594 399721266 83 Linux /dev/sda2 953040060 976768064 11864002+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 953040123 976768064 11863971 82 Linux swap / Solaris ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo umount /dev/sda1 umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sda1 /mnt fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /mnt The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193