View Full Version : [ubuntu] 8.04 upgrade and grub problem
hurtman
April 25th, 2008, 06:55 PM
I upgraded a server from 7.10 to 8.04. After the upgrade, the computer rebooted and came up with a grub prompt. I can see the kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-server) but I can't load it. I keep getting error 18 (cylinder size exceeds maximum supported by bios). I had no problems with 7.10. Any help?
Thanks,
Jeff
dstew
April 25th, 2008, 06:58 PM
Did you re-do your partitions when you installed 8.04?
hurtman
April 25th, 2008, 07:53 PM
No, I did not redo the partitions.
Pumalite
April 25th, 2008, 09:27 PM
Can you upgrade your BIOS?
hurtman
April 25th, 2008, 11:36 PM
Can't upgrade the BIOS. It's an Intel SE440BX-3 and I can't find any upgrades.
Pumalite
April 25th, 2008, 11:43 PM
How much memory do you have?
hurtman
April 26th, 2008, 12:13 AM
only 256MB
Pumalite
April 26th, 2008, 02:52 AM
You could do a clean install with the Xubuntu 8.04 Alternate CD. 8.4 optimaly needs 340.
confused57
April 26th, 2008, 04:02 AM
I upgraded a server from 7.10 to 8.04. After the upgrade, the computer rebooted and came up with a grub prompt. I can see the kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-server) but I can't load it. I keep getting error 18 (cylinder size exceeds maximum supported by bios). I had no problems with 7.10. Any help?
Thanks,
Jeff
This may explain what happened & how to repair:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#18
See the error 18 someone received when upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10...new kernel(7.10) was placed outside the bios limit.
hurtman
April 27th, 2008, 02:36 AM
Thanks to all for your help and advice. I ended up installing an old hard drive, partitioning it at 512 MB for the boot partition. The original drive became my data drive. I copied the smb.conf file and changed the mapping to match the new mount. Worked great. Server is back up and running.
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