Grub Error Attempt To Access Block Outside Partition
I originally thought... At any rate, I decided it would make more sense to just reinstall and start fresh than to try and pick up the pieces. After going through the reinstall, formatting my OS hard drive and installing Ubuntu, it asked for a reboot. When it restarted, I hit the following Grub error:Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partitionAfter doing a ton of searching online, I finally figured out that this was a problem with my menu.lst file that Grub uses to boot. In my case, it was attempting to boot off the wrong HD with the line:boot (hd4,0)To correct this, I had to do a temporary and then a permanent fix. The temporary fix is needed to get Ubuntu to boot at all, and because I wasn't able to figure out an effective way to edit the menu.lst file without being able to boot into Ubuntu in the first place...So, for the temporary fix, when you start (or reboot) your computer, wait for the Grub loading stage and hit escape to interrupt the countdown (usually 3 seconds by default) and enter the grub menu. Once in the Grub menu, hit 'e' to begin editing. Look for the line that starts with 'boot' and make sure it's set to 'boot (hd0,0)'. If it's not, go down to that line if you're not already on it and hit 'e' to edit that line. Change 'hdX' (where X is any number NOT 0) to 'hd0' and hit enter to accept the change. Then hit 'b' to boot with those settings. *NOTE* If your boot line was set to (hd0,0), check here for other alternatives.Once you've done this, you should be able to boot Ubuntu. Now you need to make sure you don't have to do this every time! To do this...Open a terminal and type:'sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst'This will open your menu.lst file for editing. (If you're not used to editing in vi, you can also try gedit by typing 'gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst')In either case, once you have the file open, navigate down past all the commented lines (lines starting with '#') towards the bottom of the file. There you'll see three sections, one to load Ubuntu, one to load Ubuntu in recovery mode, and one to run the
Help » General » SOLVED - Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition « previous next » Print Pages: [1] Go Down Author Topic: SOLVED - Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition (Read 1444 times) maurice Hero Member Posts: 1869 SOLVED - Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition « on: May 07, 2014, 05:59:38 PM » This is what I get when I try to start both Pclos64 and Minime and I haven't a clue as to what it means. If someone could enlighten me I will be most grateful.ThanksMaurice « Last Edit: May 07, 2014, 09:40:53 PM by Maurice » Logged http://jaykinzer.blogspot.com/2008/08/grub-error-24-attempt-to-access-block.html Minime64kde (3 copies), PcLinuxos64kde, on two separate hard drives on custom built Desktop-- Intel 4 core Haswell cpu 3.40. Asrock H831M-DGS mb. UEFI.Hitachi sata 250gb. WDC sata 70gb. 8gb ram. Lenovo 22" flat screen monitor i14 PCLinuxOS Tester Super Villain Posts: 23815 MLUs Forever! Re: Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition « Reply #1 on: May 07, 2014, 06:20:21 PM » From grub:infotroubleshooting, stage 2 errorsQuote24 : Attempt to access block http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=126198.0 outside partition This error is returned if a linear block address is outside of the disk partition. This generally happens because of a corrupt filesystem on the disk or a bug in the code handling it in GRUB (it's a great debugging tool). Logged "Posterity - a paultry form of eternity" L. CohenKernel: 4.8.1-pclos1 x86_64 (64 bit); Desktop: KDE 4.14.18; Mobo: ASUSTeK P8Z68-V PRO v: Rev 1.0.1; CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-3770S (-MCP-) cache: 8 MB; Memory: 8 GB; CPU Speed max: 3900 MHz; Graphics Card: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd; SONY DVD RW maurice Hero Member Posts: 1869 Re: Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition « Reply #2 on: May 07, 2014, 09:40:13 PM » Thanks for that Just17 but it's still beyond me. However it doesn't matter because it has somehow "fixed itself". Logged Minime64kde (3 copies), PcLinuxos64kde, on two separate hard drives on custom built Desktop-- Intel 4 core Haswell cpu 3.40. Asrock H831M-DGS mb. UEFI.Hitachi sata 250gb. WDC sata 70gb. 8gb ram. Lenovo 22" flat screen monitor Print Pages: [1] Go Up « previous next » PCLinuxOS-Forums » Help » General » SOLVED - Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition SMF 2.0.11 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines XHTML RSS WAP2
Password Login: [x] Format For Printing -XML -Clone This Bug -Last Comment First Last Prev Next This bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645216 not in your last search results. Bug645216 - Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition after F13-F14B upgrade Summary: Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition after F13-F14B upgrade Status: CLOSED WONTFIX Aliases: None Product: Fedora Classification: Fedora Component: grub (Show other bugs) Sub Component: --- Version: 14 Hardware: x86_64 Linux Priority low Severity high TargetMilestone: --- TargetRelease: grub error --- Assigned To: Peter Jones QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance Docs Contact: URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Duplicates: 645215 (view as bug list) Depends On: Blocks: Show dependency tree /graph Reported: 2010-10-20 22:34 EDT by Andrew Luecke Modified: 2012-08-16 15:48 EDT (History) CC List: 5 users (show) jonathan lkundrak madhu.chinakonda pjones yoshihara See Also: Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug grub error attempt Fix Doc Text: Story Points: --- Clone Of: Environment: Last Closed: 2012-08-16 15:48:32 EDT Type: --- Regression: --- Mount Type: --- Documentation: --- CRM: Verified Versions: Category: --- oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: Cloudforms Team: --- Attachments (Terms of Use) Additional configuration data (5.07 KB, text/plain) 2010-10-20 22:34 EDT, Andrew Luecke no flags Details Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.) Groups: None (edit) Description Andrew Luecke 2010-10-20 22:34:50 EDT Created attachment 454714 [details] Additional configuration data Description of problem: ======================== After upgrading from Fedora13-Fedora 14 Beta (KDE Spin) on 20/10/10 (using preupgrade-cli), grub is unable to boot to vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64, throwing a "Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition" error. However, the older "vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64" successfully starts booting WITHOUT the error, and F13 had no issues either.No changes were ever manually made to grub configuration. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ============================================================= Kernel: vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 (CAUSES THE ERROR) vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 WORKED FINE!! Grub: 1:0.97-66.fc14 (x86_64) F13 did not have this problem... How reproducible: ================ Unknown. Have not tested. Steps to Reproduce: ================== Initial setup: 1.