Re: Error 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Sun, 30 Dec 2001 01:26:51 -0500,
Daniel Freedman wrote:
> However, the really confusing or disturbing thing is that it sometimes
> work perfectly fine and completely boots from this partition, yet
> sometimes doesn't work and fails with the above message.  And, worse,
> try as I might I can't find any type of reproducibility in it (the
> only clue seems to be that I can seem to coerce grub to better
> recognize this partition if I give it a 'geometry (hd0)' on the
> command line beforehand).  Also, it's never worked from this partition
> when automated from a menu, but can be made to work by entering the
> exact same commands from the grub command line.  Seems strange to
> me...

That's too strange, but that is perhaps because there is code that
depends on something happening by chance (e.g. the timer, the layout
of the stack...). The code may be in GRUB, or, may be in your BIOS.

Anyway, please try the latest version in the CVS first, as I have done
a change which might be related to your problem right now.

Thanks,
Okuji