On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:52:58 -0800 (PST)
begin Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
>
> --- Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Scribbling feverishly on February 17, Net Llama managed to emit:
> > > Just wondering if there's an interest in a SxS for installing Linux
> > on a
> > > Mac Powerbook?
> >
> > Yup.
>
> I spoke too soon. Ugh
> Well, i might have to hold off on this for a bit. I think the hardware
> in this thing is flaky. It just spontantously self destructed its
> filesystem. I'm in the console about to put it on the network, and
> suddenly all kinds of ugly cryptic ext2 corruption errors start
> appearing. Next thing i know, all of /etc has disapeared, and the mount
> point for / has changed from /dev/hda9 to something like
> /dev/mounts/scsi/luns/parts/9
You weren't playing with devfs were you?
> I try to remount / readonly, but i get all kinds of errors that
> /etc/mtab can't be found. I try again with the -n switch, and then i
> get errors that / is busy and can't be remounted. So i try to do a
> shutdown, and get an error that only root can do that. I *WAS* root,
> but it didn't know it because all of /etc/ was gone, so uid 0 was a
> mystery. So, i hit reset, and somehow manage to get into single user
> mode. I run a fsck which gives me lines and lines of damaged/missing
> inodes, including all of /etc. So once the damage has been 'repaired' i
> have all of /etc/ empty, which leaves the system completely unusable.
> Ugh.
>
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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