Re: Q: attempt to access beyond end of device

[Bart Warmerdam <bartw xs4all nl>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 09:51:16AM +0100, Dauter, Oliver wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I´ve run into a problem booting my AS400 (RH5.2) with a "new" self-compiled
> kernel.
> I get the following message:
> 
> MILO> boot sda5:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/sda5
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 08:05: rw=0, want=2145443872, limit=6291440
> block_read: read failed (after 0 bytes)
> ext_iget: read error
> MILO: Failed to load the kernel
> 
> I´ve tried out 2.0.34 and 2.0.35-5 sources shipped with RH5.1 and RH5.2.
> 
> With the compiled kernel shipped with RH5.1 everything works fine, but I
> need other filesystems and my ZIPdrive working with the kernel, so I have to
> compile me a own.
> 
  I guess your kernel is not totally within the first xx Mb of your disk. I
  had the same problem once. Installing it on a small partition (hda1 - 5Mb)
  solved it.

  HTH,

  B.

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