I just ran thought the x86 stage3 build twice to verify the problem was repeatable. After installing gentoo using the x86 stage3 using a minimal livecd I was unable to boot the system. I can't remember the syntax of the error and was unable to capture it but this is the gist of it: attempt to access beyond the end of device 01:00: rw-0, want=4114, limit=4096 attempt to access beyond the end of device 01:00: rw-0, want=4114, limit=4096 I increased the ramdisk size by modifying /boot/grub/grub.conf and the problem went a way. I added "ramdisk=8000" to the kernel arguments and the problem went away both times. I am a noobie so I am not ruling out pilot error.
This was fixed in Genkernel 3.0.2a by giving out an extra "ramdisk_size" parameter for initrds that are larger than 4096K. Thanks!
For a stage1 build on an SMP Athlon-MP 1800+ (2 CPUs) system, genkernel version 3.0.2 produced: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1981499 Apr 12 10:51 initrd-2.4.25-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1413223 Apr 12 10:38 kernel-2.4.25-gentoo Whereas for a single CPU P4 2.4Ghz machine, using genkernel 3.0.1: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1743067 Mar 29 09:21 initrd-2.4.25-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1552346 Mar 29 08:59 kernel-2.4.25-gentoo And for a 850Mhz P3 system, also on genkernel 3.0.1: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1967847 Mar 23 10:09 initrd-2.4.25-gentoo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1413229 Mar 23 09:20 kernel-2.4.25-gentoo Only on the one produced with 3.0.2 did the "attempt to access beyond the end of device" error occur, and this was simply fixed using 'ramdisk=8192' to the config in grub. All of these kernels/initrds were produced using 'genkernel all'.
I just built a 2004.1 stage3 build using a new min install disk and I had the same problem. I used Genkernel 3.0.2a on my P4 2.66 GHz: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1974400 May 2 07:21 initrd-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1413257 May 2 07:01 kernel-2.4.25-gentoo-r2 I just increased the ramdisk again and it worked. Thought you would want to know, Ben
Gentoo 2004.1, genkernel 3.0.2a. After finishing its job it instructed me to add 'ramdisk_size=4512' to grub.conf. But i was getting this error when trying to boot. i replaced ramdisk_size with ramdisk=8192 and it works now. Athlon XP 2000+ (1,67GHz)
Tim, can you give us an update on this one? Is this still an issue, or can we close this?
3.0.2c, the stable version which was used for 2004.2 doesn't have this issue so I guess I can close this as FIXED.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
