Description of problem: We tried to install a F13 to a partition at the end of a disk with 1,5 TByte but it seems ananconda failed to set up grub properly during install. Trying to do it manually using a F13 Live resulted in this error message when running "root (hd0,6)" in grub: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS We repartitioned and created a root/boot partition completely below 1 TByte and everything worked as expected. Windows 7 and Grub2 from Ubuntu 10.04 work correctly when their partition is at the end of the disk.
Tried it with Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso and hit the same problem BTW, the complete message that grub displays in both cases was: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS I forgot the "error 18" in the initial report, sorry for that
This is likely a BIOS problem. There were several recent upstream discussions, and Tejun wrote an excellent writeup on the ata kernel wiki a while back, too. Jon.
(In reply to comment #2) > This is likely a BIOS problem. Then why do Windows and Ubuntu 10.04 (with grub2) work just fine? > There were several recent upstream discussions, > and Tejun wrote an excellent writeup on the ata kernel wiki a while back, too. He wrote a lot about the 4k disks and the 2 (not 1) TByte limit with standard 512-Byte-sector-size-disks due to 32-bit limitation in the MBR afaics. Or am I missing something here?
This is a real problem. I am not sure where the limit lies 1-2 TB, but the issue is with grub (0.97). I have a Dell r710 with 6 1TB drives. I had them setup as one big space with Raid 6 (about 3.9 TB). RHEL 6.1 would install just fine (in UEFI). With the following partitions created from the RedHat installer: /dev/sda1 /boot/efi 200M /dev/sda2 /boot 500M /dev/sda3 / 100G /dev/sda4 LV remainder I also tried the default Red Hat schema, which put the root in the LV as well. Both of these failed. When it rebooted it would stop at the "grub>" prompt. When I tried to manually enter grub commands I got the error: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS I finally had to switch to 2 separate Raid Layouts: 1 TB Raid 1 for system 3 TB Raid 5 for data This worked fine, but limited the use of my space and lost my 2 disk redundancy of Raid 6.
Steve (and pjones!), feel free to reopen, but I guess this bug is not worth any further investigation from the Fedora perspective(¹), as F16 will mostly use grub2 and a fix for F14 and F15 is unlikely to happen afaics, so I think it's best to close it as "Wontfix". (¹)might be of interest for RHEL6 OTOH