Problems with System Boot.

neilkfox · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

I have just installed the Gentoo OS on my machine.

All seemed well until my first boot after install.

I get the GRUB screen up with Gentoo Linux 2.4 and I hit enter.

I then see it loading drivers for different things, CD Rom HDD etcetc, then all of a sudden I get a number of lines stating

attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00 rw=0 want=4105 limit=4096

etc
etc
etc

It then comes up with a /# prompt

I can use ls but I don't seem to be able to do anything else.

Can anyone give me a hand or let me know what I have done wrong.

Thanks in advance

Neil

sapphirecat · Guru Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 376

Just a guess, but it sounds like you're running across bug 47450? Keep us posted...
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ddeacon · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 22

So, if we ran into this, how do we adjust the size of the ramdisk?

I can't even launch any editors to edit files and adjust the size (if I could find where to adjust). I'm a bit a bit new at this.

Thanks,
Don.

sapphirecat · Guru Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 376

You should be able to reboot with the install CD, mount your /boot partition somewhere, and run nano. Roughly:

b060 · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

I wonder if you wrote properly

neilkfox · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

Thank you all for your comments and help. It was indeed bug 47450.

I changed the RAMDISK to 8000 and the system booted up fine.

Thanks again

Neil

ddeacon · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 22

I wasn't able to ever get around these errors by setting the ramdisk to 8000 thought I did by eliminating the ramdisk altogether. This leads me to two questions:

1) My configuration in grub.conf was:
kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.24 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.24
ramdisk=8000

Is there anything wrong with this? I was still getting the error that it was trying to write past 4096 so I don't think the ramdisk size was getting put in right.

2) I ended up just making the grub.conf similar to the manual config instructions:
kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.24 root=/dev/hda3

getting rid of the whole initrd and ramdisk stuff.

I was able to at least boot now but is this liable to cause problems? I'm not sure what initrd does so I don't know the consequences of omitting it.

Thanks,
Don.

sapphirecat · Guru Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 376

ddeacon · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 22

Thanks...putting the ramdisk part on the line ith the kernel did the trick...

jaspersteller · n00b Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 2

ok i know what i got to do is add the ram disk 8000 onto my file but i need help mounting the drives im a noob at this so any help will be greatly appreciated im running 2.4.25 kernel and stage 3 x86 tarbal i just need to know the commands to load the drive and the path for nano to get to the grub.conf fie thanks guys

trevor · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 27 Location: /home/trevor

pyromjm · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 1

Go to this link https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656 and scroll down to where it says "Where is my grub.conf? "
-Pyromjm

tomk · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:58 pm Post subject:

Moved to Duplicate Threads, please see this topic:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=152855

as well as those mentioned above.
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