On 13 Jun 99, at 20:08, Peter Christensen wrote: > Partition check: HDA: HDA1 HDA2 < HDA5 > HDA3 HDA4 > attempt to access beyond end of device ... > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:02 iso-blknum 16 block 32 > kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
One thing that springs to mind is that you might be trying to boot to a partition that extends past the 1024th cylinder. Boot from a Debian rescue disk, enter fdisk from there, and check where your Linux partition begins and ends... if it ends past the 1024th cylinder, that's bad, if it begins past the 1024th cylinder, that's quite bad. Real up on LBA and disk geometry.... if repartitioning is out of the question, something like EZ-BIOS could probably help. (I was silly enough to forget I had EZ-BIOS installed, and accidently let lilo overwrite my MBR, which caused Bad Things -- gotta be careful with that). That might not be it, but that's one of the things it could be. Good luck. > I have Windows 95 in one partition and Linux in another. I only > recently installed Linux and haven't really done anything with it yet > because of this problem. Someone in this user group some time ago > suggested that my partitions might be overlapping. I re-installed > everything, going back to fdisk twice, to no avail. Any other thoughts > on what I might do to solve this problem??? > > Peter Christensen
