Thanks for the help! I'm afraid I can't make much of it though. As I
say, I've been using linux for about 10 years, but that doesn't mean
I've been /understanding/ much of it. I have only the vaguest grasp of
UUIDs and cylinder geometry. I don't know what the "stanzas" are and
I'm not sure what you mean by "the actual drive /dev use" (unless you
just mean /dev/hda, which I believe it is, though there is a second
hard drive I mount separately).<br>
<br>Below I give the "fdisk -l" output. Thanks again for any help.<br>Steve<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x0008fac7<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/hda1 * 1 38560 309733168+ 83 Linux<br>/dev/hda2 38561 38913 2835472+ 5 Extended<br>/dev/hda5 38561 38913 2835441 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br><br>Disk /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x000b8293<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/hdb1 1 19103 153444816 83 Linux<br>
/dev/hdb2 19104 19457 2843505 5 Extended<br>/dev/hdb5 19104 19457 2843473+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br></blockquote><span id="q_1188789aa0da605e_1" class="WQ9l9c"></span><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Cyber Source <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Whatever the bios is told as a boot device, if it's a hard drive, it<br>
will go to "first" partition on that drive that has a "boot" flag (fdisk<br>
-l), it will be the partition with a "*" declared.<br>
First off, I would suspect a problem with the CHS (cylinder,head,sector)<br>
geometry that the drive has or is being interpreted by the bios as, to<br>
the kernel.<br>
Second off, I would think it's how the stanzas are written and the<br>
UUID's (always a problem I've seen) are being used. Try changing to the<br>
actual drive /dev use.<br>
Tell me those things and I'll tell you my reasoning later, if<br>
applicable, sorry lazy typer.....<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Steve Petersen wrote:<br>
> Hi NFLUGgers,<br>
><br>
> I've been using some form of linux for about 10 years, but I'm still a<br>
> newbie in many ways, and I wonder if you can help me. For some time<br>
> now my home desktop computer - which has Ubuntu 7.10 on it and nothing<br>
> else - won't boot any of the more recent kernels the update-manager<br>
> downloads. It gives me<br>
><br>
> Error 18: selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS<br>
><br>
><br>
> until I choose in GRUB an old enough kernel that BIOS can reach,<br>
> apparently. I don't know if I have a separate boot partition; it's<br>
> however Ubuntu set it up default. (No separate boot partition shows<br>
> up on the 'mount' command - but would it?) I also don't know what my<br>
> motherboard is - that's where the BIOS lives, right? As you see I'm<br>
> still pretty ignorant of some basic computing concepts.<br>
><br>
> Anyway this has been going on for over a year, probably, but the<br>
> kernel's old enough now that (without good evidence either way) I'm<br>
> starting to worry it'll be sub-optimal in noticeable ways. It's<br>
> 2.6.17-10-generic, though /boot lists versions as recent as<br>
> 2.6.22-14-generic.<br>
><br>
> Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts.<br>
><br>
> Steve<br>
><br>
> --<br>
><br>
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