Error 18: Selected cylinder exceed maximum supported by BIOS

[brjoon1021]

Hi,

I have the Gnome and KDE version of 1.7 installed on a 160 GB IDE disk. GRUB is in the MBR. The disk has Windows XP on a 90 GB NTFS partition and Ultimate is on the rest, around 60GB of ReiserFS partition. 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.

This error message occured after an Ultimate Lockup. I had to shut the system down by the power supply. Now, I get this error with Ultimate. Windows boots just fine from GRUB.

Any ideas?

[TheeMahn]

Hi,

I have the Gnome and KDE version of 1.7 installed on a 160 GB IDE disk. GRUB is in the MBR. The disk has Windows XP on a 90 GB NTFS partition and Ultimate is on the rest, around 60GB of ReiserFS partition. 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.

This error message occured after an Ultimate Lockup. I had to shut the system down by the power supply. Now, I get this error with Ultimate. Windows boots just fine from GRUB.

Any ideas?

I am not doubting your intelligence when you say your disk is supported by the bios, can you do me a favor and verify that disk is set as lba or auto with in your bios. And if it is can you please post the output of /boot/grub/menu.list if you can not access this file boot from the live dvd and post it from the live dvd after manually mounting the partition.

If you would like my opinion, I would shy away from reiserfs and use xfs, did you know the original creator of reiserfs hans reiser is in prison for murder? Not much support there, I am aware others have picked up his work, but will never be the same, reisers disk checks suck in my humble opinion, I am not telling you what to do, just bringing things to your attention.

TheeMahn