Hi NFLUGgers,<br><br>I've been using some form of linux for about 10
years, but I'm still a newbie in many ways, and I wonder if you can
help me. For some time now my home desktop computer - which has Ubuntu
7.10 on it and nothing else - won't boot any of the more recent kernels
the update-manager downloads. It gives me<br>
<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span class="nfakPe">Error</span> <span class="nfakPe">18</span>: selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS<br clear="all">
</blockquote>
<br>until I choose in <span class="nfakPe">GRUB</span> an old enough
kernel that BIOS can reach, apparently. I don't know if I have a
separate boot partition; it's however Ubuntu set it up default. (No
separate boot partition shows up on the 'mount' command - but would
it?) I also don't know what my motherboard is - that's where the BIOS
lives, right? As you see I'm still pretty ignorant of some basic
computing concepts.<br>
<br>Anyway this has been going on for over a year, probably, but the kernel's old enough now that (without good evidence
either way) I'm starting to worry it'll be sub-optimal in noticeable
ways. It's 2.6.17-10-generic, though /boot lists versions as recent as
2.6.22-14-generic.<br>
<br>Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts.<br><br>Steve<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br><a href="http://stevepetersen.net">http://stevepetersen.net</a>