Strange output at boot, how to fix?
When I boot my Arch i686 installation running on fakeRAID (RAID 0) I get a list of errors right after grub (after loading initramfs) saying
Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 1745542400
Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 1745542401
Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 1745542402
Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 1745542403
Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 1745542404
RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/fub_rules.c (625)
RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/devinet.c (1045)
RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/imgp.c (1348)
RTNL: assertion failed at net/ipv4/imgp.c (1199)
usb2-2: device not accepting address at 2, error -71 (doesn't appear always)
mknod: File exists
What do these errors mean and where do they come from? Is it the hardware of some
thing software?
Someone suggested to me that my partition table is either incorrect, or my filesystems don't match the partitions I created (this happens when you re-partition your disk, but don't re-read your partition table for example):
sda: rw=0, want=1953536123, limit=976773168
attempt to access beyond end of device
That can be because when I installed Arch on my new machine with the fakeraid (dmraid & RAID 0) I created the partitions with cfdisk via the installer. After setting them up and everything I wrote the table and cfdisk gave the warning (partition table created but could not re-read the table). Is there a way to fix this?
Regards
André
your system freezes or it boots anyway ?
if it freezes, I dont know what is the problem
if it boots anyway, the error is because the partition sda3 is beyond the end of sda :
RAID0 stripes data on both disk (sda and sdb on your system I guess)
but the primary partition table is only on sda (check your /dev, you should have sda, sda1, sda2, sda3 and sda4, but only sdb)
you have on your sda (which is 500GB) a partition table for a 1000GB disk
so, if some of your primary partitions are beyond 500GB (partly or entierly), it complains that their are beyond the end of the drive while setting sda
I don't know any way to fix this, except limiting primary partition's total size to 500GB (logical partitions on sda are not set, so they don't trigger this error)
you can safely ignore this error since you never access sda (and you should never access it)
PS: sorry for my English if something is not correct
Last edited by nowahn (2009-01-09 21:50:55)
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