Comment 5 for bug 64342

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 64342] Re: Stops booting with "Error 18: selected cylinder exeeds maximum support by BIOS"

It seems unlikely that a bug initially filed in October 2006 can have as
its sole cause a regression in the 9.04 kernel!

In your case, it's probably just that installing the new kernel image
package happened to put the kernel files above the BIOS limit. I expect
that a workaround would be to create a small /boot partition at the
start of your disk. (Unfortunately the installer has a hard time knowing
when this is going to be the case.)