Re: install kernel panics when creating&mke2fs'ing partitions
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:56:42PM +0200, Vincent Favre-Nicolin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a few problems installing debian (potato or woody) on my
> 7300. I'm not a beginner at linux or even linux/ppc, but it's my first
> try at debian. My problem seems to be related to this one (although I'm
> having issues mainly with mke2fs):
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200201/msg00685.html
>
> For the record, my setup is a 7300 with a G3 card, a 3dfx voodoo3
> card, and a formac scsi card ; this setup has been working under linux
> (LinuxPPC, Yellowdog 2.0, SuSE), so the hardware should not be an
> issue. I have a disk on the UW scsi card, and another (on which I try
> to install debian/ppc) on the mac's internal scsi. (I checked the
> install disk for bad blocks but found none).
>
> Basically, I have kernel panics mostly when trying to mke2fs the
> created partition, when the partition is large... (sometimes I have
> problems when writing the partition table as well...). Here are a few
> tries I've been making (I do the fdisk and mke2fs directly from the
> console, not the installer to know what's going on):
>
> I tried installation with freshly downloaded ramdisks and kernels
> (linux.bin), using only 2.2 since apparently the 2.4 "new" kernels for
> install are not comiled with the tdfx framebuffer support, so I can't
> see a thing (no matter the "no video driver" is checked or any
> video=tdfx... option is passed)
>
> 1)
> *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?
> * Boot again in potato installer, and try again same thing ; same panic
>
> * 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
e2fsprogs maintainer) What is your e2fsck version no.?
> 2) Under the woody installer & 2.2 kernel, basically the same thing
> happens
>
> 3) Under YellowDogLinux (still installed on the other disk), mke2fs'ing
> the 3Gb partition does not give any problem whatsoever. However, if I
> reboot after in the debian installer, I have problems in writing to the
> new partition (mounts fine, but reports an I/O error when trying to
> create files on it %-( )...
>
> 4) I have also tried creating the 3 partitions with Drive setup,
> changing the type to Linux native with pdisk under MacOS(9), but there
> still is crash when mke2fs'ing the partition in the debian installer...
>
> I have not tried putting the install disk on the UW card, in case
> this is related to the MESH driver...
>
> Voila... I could work around this by using no more than about 1GB
> partitions, but I don't like the idea. If there is a known workaround,
> please tell me !
> I'm willing to make a few tests of other ramdisks of kernels if this
> can help (for a 2.4 kernel, I would absolutely need one compiled with
> the 3dfx Frame Buffer support). Is there any way to use a home-compiled
> kernel with the install ramdisks (I tried using my 2.2.18, but got a
> "no init found") ?
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>
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