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From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com>
To: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernels - "attempt to access beyond end of device"
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:47:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010228154708.C30334@mail.harddata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C157EB0697@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <C157EB0697@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz>; from Petr Vandrovec on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:54:15PM +0000

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:54:15PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> On 28 Feb 01 at 13:46, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > I think that I found what gives me a hell with this box and it
> > looks like that this not Linux at all.  Once again, this is Athlon
> > K6 on Asus AV7 mobo and "Award Advanced ACPI BIOS" version 1005C.
> 
> K7 on A7V, I believe...

Maybe.  'cat /proc/cpuinfo' says "cpu family: 6" and "model :4"
(and "stepping: 2").  I possibly misinterpreted that.  Do not believe
me when I am talking about x86 chips. :-)

> > I have more checks to make before I will be fully satisfied but
> > this looks like it.
> ...
> > System Performance Setting [Optimal, Normal]
> ...
> 
> Try BIOS 1006. AFAIK 1005D changed some VIA values for 'optimal'.

Is that important here?  IDE drives in question were not connected to
on-board controller but the Promise one.  Results seem to indicate
that this 'optimal' was important here anyway.

> And 1006 contains newer Promise BIOS - but I did not notice any difference:
> Windows98 still do not boot if I connect harddisk to /dev/hdh :-(

There is at this moment Windows98 installation on /dev/hde1 and it boots
so far.   It got installed and it was booting regardless with these
"other" BIOS seetings.

> But Linux works fine...

Hope so....

  Michal
  michal@harddata.com

  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-28 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-28 22:54 2.4 kernels - "attempt to access beyond end of device" Petr Vandrovec
2001-02-28 22:47 ` Michal Jaegermann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-01  0:07 Petr Vandrovec
2001-03-01 12:22 ` Thomas Molina
2001-02-27  2:10 Michal Jaegermann
2001-02-27 23:36 ` Michal Jaegermann
2001-02-28 20:46   ` Michal Jaegermann

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