I've received the following error messages several times: Partition check: HDA: HDA1 HDA2 < HDA5 > HDA3 HDA4 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1 ext2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access beyond end of device ext2-fs: unable to read superblock minix-fs: unable to read superblock [ms-dos fs rel 12, fat 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, fl=0, ds=0, de=0, data=0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0, rc=0, fc=4294967295] transaction block size=512 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=1 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:02 iso-blknum 16 block 32 kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
I tried re-installing Linux and Windows. The most recent time I went back to fdisk and deleted all partitions, then used fdisk to create a primary partition and an extended partition. I used fips to divide the first partition. When fips started it said something about the physical and logical sizes of the partitions not matching, but said it was irrelevant. After fips ran (successfully, it seemed) I got a message (from DOS, I think) that said, "Memory allocation error. Cannot load COMMAND, system halted." I went ahead and installed Linux in the newly created second partition. (I held off installing Windows in the first.) It booted OK from the floppy, but when I tried to boot with LILO afterward I got the above messages again. The first time I got the "kernel panic" message was after running a tutorial in Wordperfect under Windows. (The program seemed to go into an endless loop, and I had to reboot.) After that, I've had the same problem over and over, even after deleting and formatting the partitions. So I have no idea what to do. It's so tantalizing because I really liked the little that I saw of Debian Linux. Maybe LILO just won't work on my computer. And unfortunately I just can't do without Windows yet because I need access to the internet for this discussion group. Help!!! Peter Christensen
