On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:00:10AM +0200, Vincent Favre-Nicolin wrote: > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 03:13, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:56:42PM +0200, Vincent Favre-Nicolin wrote: > > > *format 3 partitions (400MB/3Go/800Mo) with Drive Setup (from MacOS > > > 9.1) * boot in potato installer using BootX 1.2.2 > > > * fdisk, edit partitions to change types to linux, write partition > > > => OK * mkswap & swapon on /dev/sdb7 OK > > > * mke2fs /dev/sdb8 => kernel panic after "writing inodes > > > table:done" (message is "kernel stack overflow in process > > > c3f480000) > > > > sdb? Usually the internal hard disks are coded scsi 0 so would be > > sda? > > No, the other disk is on the UW scsi card, which for some reason is > labelled as the scsi bus #0. Mesh only comes as scsi1, and the install > disk is then sdb. > > > > * Boot again in potato, and try with different partitions sizes > > > * fdisk: erase and create new partition table, create 1 partition > > > * mke2fs partition > > > -> works 10^6, 2.10^6, crashes with 4.10^6 blocks of 512 bytes > > > (for the 4.10^6, crahes while "writing superblocks and fs > > > accounting info...", again it is a "kernel stack overflow") > > > > This sounds like possibly #133909, except on powerpc. (copying > > Sounds a bit like it, except that I have kernel panics, which > suggests an issue with the kernel, and not e2fsprogs (?) > > > e2fsprogs maintainer) What is your e2fsck version no.? > > e2fsck and mke2fs are version 1.27 (8 marcrh 2002) > > > For replacing the kernel on the floppy, check out > > > > <a > > href="http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc > >/current/doc/ch-boot-floppy-techinfo.en.html#s-rescue-replace-kernel"> > >10.3 Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel</a> > > Thanks, I'll try to play with that... maybe I'll be luckier once I > get a 2.4 kernel working with a display. Unfortunately, the 2.4 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy. But BootX will boot it.
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