[nflug] GRUB error 18

[Steve Petersen]

Hi NFLUGgers,

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

Error 18:  selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
>

until I choose in GRUB 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.

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.

Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts.

Steve

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