Mailing List Archive: "reading beyond end of file"

Björn Brings wrote:

> Dear Peter,
> i'm a new user of your syslinux program. Functions work fine, but every time
> when loading the kernel a "reading beyond end of file" dos fat error
> occures. This error occures with Pauls Boot CD (pbcd) basing on syslinux,
> too. What shall I do? Using the debuging Version doesn't help an doesn't
> tell anythig. Because of the following Kernel Panic because of finding no
> root (Please give an init=, or so) fs I can't tell you what happens before.
> My Machine:
> Athlon700, Gigabyte GA 7IX, 256MB Ram
> I'm Using Kernel Version 2.5.3.
>

This is a new one for me. Are you sure your initrd fits on the disk?

-hpa