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by BIOS (Read 17742 times) stevsurf Newbie Posts: 4 Selected Cylinder exceeds maximum supported by error 18 selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios centos BIOS « on: 2008/09/06, 19:33:16 pm » My BIOS cannot boot the external USB hard drive on which I have installed Ububtu 8.04.1, so
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I am trying to use the SGD iso to boot it.The SGD options to boot Linux do not work so I am trying the command line route.Setting root to (hd1,0) is OK, butCode: [Select]grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=/dev/hd1,0 gives this error messageQuoteSelected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOSCan anyone suggest a grub error 18 way round the error message? Logged adrian15 Administrator Hero Member Posts: 833 Please test Rescatux and report back feedback... Re: Selected Cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS « Reply #1 on: 2008/09/07, 18:53:09 pm » You will need to reinstall Ubuntu with a new partition layout.Check: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/GrubError18adrian15 Logged If you have liked this piece of advice please consider donating to the Super Grub Disk project. stevsurf Newbie Posts: 4 Re: Selected Cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS « Reply #2 on: 2008/09/08, 23:59:20 pm » Quote from: adrian15 on 2008/09/07, 18:53:09 pmYou will need to reinstall Ubuntu with a new partition layout.Check: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/GrubError18adrian15Many thanks Adrian.I reduced my partition size as suggested and now Super Grub Disk boots my Ubuntu installation. Logged adrian15 Administrator Hero Member Posts: 833 Please test Rescatux and report back feedback... Re: Selected Cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS « Reply #3 on: 2008/09/09, 19:3
General support questions Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 5 posts • Page 1 of 1 Stickybit Posts: 4 Joined: 2011/11/18 09:46:46 Grub Error 18 Quote Postby Stickybit » 2013/03/26 18:48:33 Hi guysAm I in trouble? Yes I am. Got a server that has been running for half a year .. and now .. it just will not boot. Grub complains with this error:Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOSI havn't changed anything with the hardware. The only thing that has changed is regular updating.Could some Grub update be the problem here - and how do I revert if that is the case?Regards Sticky Top TrevorH Forum Moderator Posts: 16773 Joined: 2009/09/24 10:40:56 http://www.supergrubdisk.org/forum/index.php?topic=150.0 Location: Brighton, UK Grub Error 18 Quote Postby TrevorH » 2013/03/26 21:27:40 Can you choose a different kernel from the list in the grub menu and boot that instead? Check your BIOS hard drive mapping and make sure the geometry has not changed - maybe your CMOS battery has reset and lost a bunch of settings? Top Stickybit Posts: 4 Joined: 2011/11/18 09:46:46 Re: Grub Error 18 Quote Postby Stickybit » 2013/03/27 05:56:04 Trying to boot http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3821 the older kernel's produce the same error, while booting the win7 installation on the same disk (which actually is a raid1) works just fine.Could some strange disk error produce this problem? - and is there a way to check the mirror for errors using rescue-mode with a installation media?Regards Sticky Top TrevorH Forum Moderator Posts: 16773 Joined: 2009/09/24 10:40:56 Location: Brighton, UK Re: Grub Error 18 Quote Postby TrevorH » 2013/03/27 09:16:03 I've seen this before on the forums and it has to do with the RAID 1. Can you post your /boot/grub/grub.conf here? Might have to boot from rescue disk to do so.The problem is that grub asks the device for its geometry and the BIOS for the limits from which it can boot and the RAID 1 "disk" returns some bogus geometry with about a million cylinders and it looks to see where the kernel is on there and gives up. Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Post Reply Print view 5 posts • Page 1 of 1 Return to “CentOS 6 - General Support” Jump to CentOS General Purpose CentOS - FAQ & Readme First Announcements CentOS Social User Comments Website Problems CentOS 7 CentOS 7 - General Support CentOS 7 - Software Support
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: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522029 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 http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?151365-Error-18-Selected-cylinder-exceeds-maximum-supported-by-BIOS 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: error 18 Show dependency 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 error 18 selected of Use) Add 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 compl
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