Hello Have been reading this news groups for some weeks but I am still having problems. I run Debian Linux and have checked the version of mke2fs. I have tried several tarballs, and several partitions, and always get a similar error.
Got a home made machine with two Seagate 4.2 Gb disks. I have a 500 Mb partition as /dev/hda1, and I follow the instructions, (know them off by heart now) I boot from a floppy and up comes Hurd. When it gets to the disk I get: hda4: bad access block 28 count 2 blockend 30 nrsects end request I/O error dev 03:04 sector 28 This is the last primary partition and it holds the rest of the partitions The script native_install runs OK; then I reboot the machine, single user again. This time I get: file system not unmounted cleanly Please fsck mount read-only must use fsysopt --writable If I fsck the partition, then reboot, it 'works' OK. The fsysopt --writable is not an allowed instruction. What I get is a very unstable system; df does not work and editing the fstab to mount other partitions is hairy. I have tried MAKEDEV to build for the other partitions What am I doing wrong. The disks were partitioned with Debian fdisk. Must I have just four primary partitions per disk? Chris
