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The short summary: When booting, my box gives up, stating:
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= ....
...
/etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10 segmentation fault loadkeys ...
Activating Swap
Adding swap
checking root filesystem
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: ...
dev 03:02: ...
...
/etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error fsck ${spinner} ...
...
fsck failed
Give root password for maintenance
Giving a ^d and booting again fixes it: booting fails and succeeds, with
the phase of the moon.
Does this mean my hardware is broken? How can I find out if this is the
case? Is my diskpartitioning corrupt? What can I do to investigate
this problem further? Would reinstalling the box solve anything?
The long story:
This box (133 MHz Pentium, 48 MB Ram, hda: QUANTUM BIGFOOT2100A, 2015MB
w/87kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63, Award Modular Bios v4.51 PG 1996) used to
run Windows. I've run fips.exe on the disk, now the disk looks like:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 356 717664+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 357 380 48384 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 381 428 96768 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 429 1023 1199520 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 429 501 147136+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 502 864 731776+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 865 1023 320512+ 83 Linux
which gets mounted as
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 46M 26M 18M 59% /
/dev/hda5 139M 37M 95M 28% /var
/dev/hda6 703M 275M 392M 42% /usr
/dev/hda7 303M 405k 287M 1% /home
/dev/hda1 697M 531M 166M 77% /mnt
fips didn't complain.
I've installed Debian GNU/Linux woody, from 3.0.23-2002-05-21 rescue
floppy disks. The rest got fetched via the network. Installation went
flawless. I installed Lilo, the machine boots Windows 98 just fine.
However, when trying to boot Linux, there's this:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
...
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
...
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=1023464393, limit=48384
dev 03:02 blocksize=1024 blocknr= ....
...
/etc/init.d/rc.S: line 38: 10 segmentation fault loadkeys ...
Activating Swap
Adding swap
checking root filesystem
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: ...
dev 03:02: ...
...
/etc/init.d/rc.S: line 145: 19 bus error fsck ${spinner} ...
...
fsck failed
Give root password for maintenance
on the console, quite often. Booting succeeds about 50% of the times.
BTW, the error occurs just after `NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for
Linux NET4.0.'. Normally,
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
Adding Swap: 96764k swap-space (priority -1)
occurs just after that. Could there be a problem with boottime.kmap.gz?
I checked the RAM, running memtest86 for about 15 hours. It passed 70
tests with 0 errors.
I've run dselect successfully: banging on the disk does _not_ cause any
errors when Linux succeeded to boot. Running X and galeon causes no
troubles either. (I didn't notice any yet, that's for sure.)
However, I'd very much like this box to boot fine always: I'm installing
it for a friend, don't want to get him struggling with this.
I'd be very glad if anybody could give me insight in what's happening
here, and I'm very willing to give more information and do more testing
if needed.
Thanks for your time!
Bye,
Joost
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