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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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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

Lexion

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 510

Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

If your ok reformatting your HDD, try using parted this time, not cfdisk.  It works better sometime.  Also, if this is an Apple computer, you should definitely use parted.  Then use rEFIt to sync the MBR with the GPT via 'Partition Tool'.  This is a little bit of a guess, but it's all I've got.

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windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

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Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

How big is your hard drive and what filing system did you use?

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

My filesystem is ext3 and it is a DELL pc (their studio line) and its actually two 500 GB harddrives running in RAID 0 (fakeRAID via dmraid). How can I use parted during the installation?

Regards

André

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

Anybody?

Regards

André

nowahn

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 75

Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

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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fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

No, my system boots just fine. I just get these errors right after grub. One of my partitions is over 500 GB (my HOME directory). Thanks for clearing up the error.

Regards

André

PS. (In /dev I have sda, sda1, sda2, sda3 and sdb as you said.)

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

Anybody got an idea what the lines

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)

mean? Now I understand the first lines but the net/...?

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 745

Re: Strange output at boot, how to fix?

Well, after the latest kernel upgrade the errors are all gone now.

Regards

André