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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:08 pm    Post subject: By the book install - doesn't work Reply with quote

Ok, I'm a newbie to Linux in general, but I've been recommended gentoo as my server-os, because it should be the best.

But, even tough I'm doing a total "by the book" install I can't boot Gentoo after install.

Everything works well, until my first reboot after installation. Grub loads fine, and then Gentoo starts to load, but after a while it displays a lot of error messages:

"Attempt to access beyond end of device".

I have done the installation 100% by the book 9 times, and the only thing happening is a lot of time going by, and still no working installation.

I'm guessing it's got something to do with fdisk, partitioning etc, but cant figure out what. Iv're tried on 3 different computers, and same result.

Ive tried to make fdisk not use entire harddrive, but I still get the errormessage mentioned above.....

What am I doing wrong ??

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have a look at this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=152855

BTW, searching for "Attempt to access beyond end of device" on these forums results in an amazing number of results... you get your answer more quickly that way as well...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved to Duplicate Threads, please see this topic:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=152855
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