>Hi,
>
>[Please Cc me on replies, I'm not subscribed.]
>
>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!
For the light answer (and completely useless), you don't have to censor fuck
out of your email, here. For a serious answer ... I'm totally at a loss. But
then, I'm still new to Linux, myself, and helplessly watched as Windoze at my
data ...
->Scwawcaac<-
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