Re: HELP - Can't boot - I/O error reading swsusp.image

[NN_il_Confusionario <pinkof.pallus@tiscalinet.it>]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, wa9als@gmail.com wrote:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> hda2: rw=16, want=8, limit=2
> I/O error reading swsusp image.

one case where "access beyond end of device" can happen is this:

You delete a partition on a disk where also other partitions are used
(mounted, or used for swap).

Then, without rebooting, you recreate the partition but not with
_exactly_ the same starting and ending point (in this case, a ending
point which is before the previous one)

Again without rebooting, you start using the re-created partition. The
kernel sitll has in memory (and in /proc/partitions) the OLD starting
and ending points of the partition, so mkswap, mkfs*, whatever still use
the "old geometry".

Then you reboot, and at the reboot the kernel reads the new partition
table ...

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