update on inode problem

[Gregory Nowak]

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Greg


On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Greg. Ok will do. What's this speakimage you're refering to? It just
> doesn't ring a bell grin!
> 
> May you code in the power of the source,
> may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > If you can, dump busybox, and go for init and all other regular binaries.
> >
> > We're having busybox problems in speakimage right now, and will be switching over to init as soon as I get time to do it.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:23:31PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > > Hi Ralph. Btw, my system is working fine, its this bootable Cd distro that
> > > I can't get quite working yet. Now I have tried changing the ramdisk size
> > > to 32768 and it still doesn't work. I have noticed all the problems come
> > > after starting busybox. The filesystem is mounting properly, or this is
> > > what the kernel reports during its half boot sequence. Does anyone know if
> > > busybox does any filesystem checks and perhaps this is what is causing the
> > > problems? Does anyone know if perhaps I throw in the regular binaries
> > > busybox uses and that fixes it? Thanks!
> > >
> > > May you code in the power of the source,
> > > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> > > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> > >
> > > > Igor Gueths staggered into view and mumbled:
> > > > >
> > > > >Hi all. Well after digging into this problem a bit further, I figured out
> > > > >that the 1:0 reported in the errors about ext2_read_inode were refering to
> > > > >/dev/ram0 according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. That
> > > > >would explain why changing the root.bin image never fixed the problem.
> > > > >Does anyone know why /dev/ram0 would report this type of error after the
> > > > >kernel mounted the EXT2_fs using the initrd? One thing I am going to try
> > > > >is to change the ramdisk_size to 16385 KB. It is currently set to 4096,
> > > > >and vanilla flavor is what isolinux is defaulting to at the moment. Does
> > > > >anyone have any other suggestions besides changing the disksize? Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm.  I wonder if this is an indication of a bit of bad RAM.  I have
> > > > heard that Linux is not very tolerant of bad memory, but RAM problems
> > > > are rare enough that I have never heard exactly how they manifest
> > > > themselves.  If all else fails (and I do mean _all_ else), you might
> > > > try swapping memory module locations on your mother board to see if
> > > > this affects the situation at all.  RAM failures are very rare, but
> > > > they can happen.  The simple RAM test performed during system boot
> > > > can miss some memory errors, but this is pretty rare as well.  I hope
> > > > you can get your system working soon.
> > > >
> > > > Have a _great_ day!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Ralph.  N6BNO.  Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O.
> > > > rreid at sunset.net  http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid
> > > > Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait.
> > > > y = x ^ LOG_B (x, y)
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