[PLUG] Debian

[Matthew Laurence Wirges]

Heres the thing, it does that with the "out of the box" kernel and it did
it with my own 2.4.3 kernel that I compiled...

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On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jeff DeFouw wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Matthew Laurence Wirges wrote:
>
> > I also checked the logs and I notice a few occurances of
> > this:
> >         vortex kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>
> This is a kernel issue.  This error leads to more errors.  Debian
> configures your kernel to remount the filesystem read-only when there is a
> filesystem error.  The default is to panic (usually followed by an
> automatic reboot).
>
> >       I am running Debian 2.2 unstable (but it happened before i
> > dist-upgraded), the root partition in question is a 4GB partition on hda
> > which is an ATA-66 Drive (are there currently issues with ATA-66?)
>
> dist-upgrades usually don't upgrade your kernel, so if you haven't done
> that, you may want to specifically tell it to install something newer.
> There are many issues with certain DMA-enabled controllers on certain
> chipsets (especially VIA), so that's a likely source.  Really any hardware
> or misconfiguration involved in reading from the disk can cause this
> error.  Look through the recent linux-kernel mailing list archives such as
> http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/ for similar problems.
> Chipset related filesystem problems are (re)reported frequently.
>
> --
> Jeff DeFouw <defouwj@purdue.edu>
>
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