Re: install kernel panics when creating&mke2fs'ing partitions
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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