error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

[krytie3@yahoo.com]

Newbie trying to install 3-10-25 version of dsl2024 from CD-ROM ISO onto an old HP7955 desktop with single 200GB internal HDD using entire HDD, 1.2 GB RAM. No errors during install and the Live CD instance seems to work OK. But once rebooted to HDD got the following error:

grub rescue> error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

ls shows:
(hd0) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
ls (hd0.msdos1) yields:

(hd0,msdos1): Filesystem is ext2

I assume the dsl2024 is installed on ( hd0, msdos1)?

Not sure what is wrong or how to fix.


Any help deeply appreciated! 

[BG405]

Was that 200GB drive originally in that machine? I suspect you might have the old ~40GB limit in your BIOS.

Try setting a partition of ~30GB and using that for the installation. You should be able to allocate the rest with a partition as big as you like, for data etc.. You might have to use a newer machine (maybe with IDE/SATA USB interface) to set the disk up, like I did years back. Also no more than 3½G of RAM should be installed as more might cause issues.

I'd expect the drive and partitions to show as sda1, 2, etc. by the way.

[krytie3@yahoo.com]

Was that 200GB drive originally in that machine? I suspect you might have the old ~40GB limit in your BIOS.

Try setting a partition of ~30GB and using that for the installation. You should be able to allocate the rest with a partition as big as you like, for data etc.. You might have to use a newer machine (maybe with IDE/SATA USB interface) to set the disk up, like I did years back. Also no more than 3½G of RAM should be installed as more might cause issues.

I'd expect the drive and partitions to show as sda1, 2, etc. by the way.

Thanks BG405 I'll give that a try! You are correct the 200GB HDD is new. Not sure about the BIOS limitation. RAM I know is limited to 1.5GB so that problem will never come up.  

Yes that is curious that it shows msdos1 instead of sda1. I wonder if it could be remnants of the old Windows OS that used to be on the HDD, although I did select to overwrite and use the entire HDD for dsl2024.

[krytie3@yahoo.com]

Was that 200GB drive originally in that machine? I suspect you might have the old ~40GB limit in your BIOS.

Try setting a partition of ~30GB and using that for the installation. You should be able to allocate the rest with a partition as big as you like, for data etc.. You might have to use a newer machine (maybe with IDE/SATA USB interface) to set the disk up, like I did years back. Also no more than 3½G of RAM should be installed as more might cause issues.

I'd expect the drive and partitions to show as sda1, 2, etc. by the way.

Thanks BG405 I'll give that a try! You are correct the 200GB HDD is new. Not sure about the BIOS limitation. RAM I know is limited to 1.5GB so that problem will never come up.  

Yes that is curious that it shows msdos1 instead of sda1. I wonder if it could be remnants of the old Windows OS that used to be on the HDD, although I did select to overwrite and use the entire HDD for dsl2024.

BG405 thanks again: reinstalling using a 7.5GB partition for installation and the remainder for data worked great! My 2001 BIOS appeared to be unable to see beyond 7-8GB so I tailored the install to that size. 

My web browsing is not very reliable but I had that problem with my previous OS Q4OS ; possibly related to my Pentium 4 1.5GHz CPU?