[parisc-linux] Kernel boot error

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Thu, 3 Apr 2003 19:30:06 +0100


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:10:44PM -0600, Ricardo Jose Guevara Ochoa wrote:
> I tried to boot the linux kernel 2.4.20pa32, and it gave me this error:
> 
> Boot device can't seek past 2gb( ignore next error ).byteio_read: 
> seekreed()return -1 excepted 2048
> ext2_get:read errorError: open /kernel/linux/vmlinux from partition 2 
> failed

your /boot partition extends above the 2GB boundary.

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