From: michaelp@mjoli.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Portz) Subject: Kernel Panick, PCTOOL's COMPRESS and FIPS Date: 17 Apr 1993 11:52:18
I have
386/40, 128K Cache, 8MB RAM, 128 MByte HD
On HD are two partitions:
dosfs on /dev/hda1 (20MB)
ext2fs on /dev/hda2 (rest)
For booting I use LILO. The versions are SLS 0.99.? and LILO 0.7.
Because 20MB DOS is more than I need, I wanted to use the just
announced FIPS-system to split the DOS-partition into to 10MB
partitions, from which I wanted to reuse the second one mainly for
/tmp and swappping. In FIPS-README it is suggested to use a common
disk-defragmentor (e.g. PCTOOLS COMPRESS) for preparing the DOS-HD for
splitting and then apply FIPS.
PROBLEM:
After having applied COMPRESS to the DOS-partition I was not able to
boot LINUX from /dev/hda2 anymore. LILO comes up with the usual stuff
but is not able to mount the root-filesystem. The system hangs with a
kernel panick (understandable!).
What I will do today is to boot with SLS's disks a1 and a2 and then
try to analyze the ext2fs on /dev/hda2. Nevertheless: If anyone knows
something about the problem, please post or mail me.
Michael