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Ubuntu Web Upd8: Ubuntu OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu Insights Planet Ubuntu Activity Page Please read 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 the problem and how to fix it. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/...gle_Hard_Drive I hope this helps. Adv Reply November 17th, 2009 #3 asuastrophysics View Profile View Forum Posts Private Message Dipped in Ub
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 exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Summary: grub : Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum 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 https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1327989 tree /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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522029 an attachment (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_bjfeeib
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 - Selected cylinder https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/93844 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 http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?151365-Error-18-Selected-cylinder-exceeds-maximum-supported-by-BIOS 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 stuck, unable to error 18 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 Last query: 2009-12-12 Last reply: error 18 selected 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
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Results 1 to 2 of 2 Thread: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Tweet Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page… Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode 04-07-2008,12:49 PM #1 brjoon1021 View Profile View Forum Posts Registered User Join Date Dec 2006 Posts 4 Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS Hi, I have Ubuntu Gutsy installed on a 160 GB IDE disk along with Win XP. GRUB is in the MBR. The first partition, the XP NTFS one, is 90 GB. Gutsy is on a ReiserFS on the rest of the disk. The motherboard is very current with the latest BIOS. The 137GB boundary is not an issue, it is not even crossed, anyway. I checked my BIOS it is set properly for the way an IDE disk should be set, as far as I understand it. This error message occured after an Ubuntu Lockup. I had to shut the system down by the power supply. Now, I get this error after selecting Ubuntu with GRUB. Windows boots just fine from GRUB. Any ideas? Reply With Quote 04-07-2008,01:54 PM #2 saikee View Profile View Forum Posts I'm totally not hacked. Join Date Jun 2004 Location Newcastle upon Tyne Posts 2,971 My guess is Grub's image may get corrupted as I got it from time to time too, usually by booting Grub recurrently. I suggest you restore Grub to see if it removes the error message which is unrelated to the actual problem. If your Ubuntu is in the 2nd partition of the 1st disk, known to Grub as (hd0,1) then boot up Ubuntu CD, click terminal and type Code: sudo su grub root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) quit reboot should cure it. The instructions, issued at a Grub shell, ask Grub to source the system files from partition (hd0,1) and install itself in the whole of disk (hd0) which is the MBR. Linux user started Jun 2004 - No. 361921 Using a Linux live CD to clone XP To install Linux and keep Windows MBR untouched Adding extra Linux & Doing it in a lazy way A Grub menu booting 100+ systems & A "Howto" to install and boot 145