by I am attempting to install Slackware version 2.1 with a Western
Digital Caviar AC31000 HD (1 gig harddrive). I understand that Linux
has trouble booting from sectors greater than 1024 and that one way
around this is to just boot from a boot floppy that is made during the
installation process. I've been ignoring the "out of range" errors I
get when I partition the drive - in this case i'm using the following:
/dev/hda1 : DOS partition
/dev/hda2 : Linux native
/dev/hda3 : LInux swap.
I decided to go back and start from scratch, repartitioned hda2 and
hda3 and did a BASIC installation. Everything seems to be OK execpt
when I go to boot from the boot disk made during the install process,
I get all kinds of disk error messages which fly by me on the screen.
The system finally hangs with the message:
"harddisk I/O error
dev 0302, sector 1015816
kernal panic: EXT2-fs panic (device 3/2); cannot read block
bitmap_block_group.
After partitioning my drives using fdisk this is what my setup looks
like:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 1048 528160 6 DOS 16 bit
/dev/hda2 1024 1049 1579 265608 83 Linux Native
/dev/hda3 1024 1576 1592 8568 82 Linux Swap
Is my bootdisk bad? The beginning numbers of 1024 for hda2 and hda3
seem a little strange; any help would be most appreciated.
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Thanks in advance,
Vincent Cocco
Suffolk University
Boston, MA 02108