From: mark@mark-one.inet-uk.co.uk (Mark Powell) Subject: Re: Pt 1/6: SLS 99.2 problems Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:34:02 GMT
In article <727676295.AA34614@remote.halcyon.com> James.H..Cloos.Jr.@f15.n229.z1.fidonet.org (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>
>PID: Fred 1.9n6
>Well, thanks for the responces I got, both mail and followups.
>
>Turns out that there is a more serious problem, as well.
>
>After I'd posted that article last night, but before logging in
>tonight, I tried booting from disk a1 to see what I could do. I was
>able to mount my /usr partition (type minix), and my dos partition,
>but my root partition (ext) wouldn't mount.
>
>Running efsck get the errors at the end of the file included below,
>which is the output of efsck -l. Unfortunately, never having had a
>chance to maintain a unix box, I'm not very familiar with fsck. Can
>efsck fix my partition, or will I have to rerun mkefs?
>
>Thanks for the replies.
I had the same problem just today. First time I've seen a Kernel Panic from
linux. "Kernel panic: unable to read i-node block". Reset the system and
booted from a1/a2. Ran efsck once and it spewed out lots of the usual stuff.
Ran it a second time and no problems (just a check). Rebooted from the hard disk
and the same panic appeared after the kernel had started up (after all the SCSI
stuff, but just before, I presume, init had started up). Went back to
the disks and tried to mount the partition. Fine. Had a look around and all the
files appeared to be there. "Great", I thought just a matter of a back-up to
tape and mkefs and re-install. However, the tape just refused to go. Must
be something wrong with the kernel on A1 as I use tapes routinely from the
0.99pl2 kernel.
However, I proceded to attempt to make a new boot floppy and a root partition
on another disk. During this I was mounting/umounting copying the contents of
A2 onto the hard disk partition and off to floppies. This seemed to mess up
the partition and I rebooted from A1/A2 to check it. This time efsck
produced all the output that James has seen. I repeated the efsck several
times but it just kept producing screenfuls of output. I finally gave in
and ran mkefs again <sigh>
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