From: dtscott@access.digex.net (Derric) Subject: 0.99p8 & ext2fs problem Date: 12 May 1993 00:31:24 -0400
I recently downloaded the entire 0.99p8 tar, installed it on my system
(upgrading from SLS 1.0 - 0.99p6). I simply tar'ed it on top of my
/usr/src/linux stuff. After building the kernel I was surprised to
see that my sound driver stuff had been clobbered (back to stubs). I
soon understood that and fixed it. Since then p8 has been working fine.
However, last weekend I decided to do a little kernel driver writing.
So I got the driver.doc and basically entered his test code. I was
quite surprised to find out that my kernel wouldn't make anymore without
serious errors in the ext2fs (version 0.2d) code (sorry I didn't seem to
write it down exactly :( but it was something like:
inode.c: ext2_fifo_inode_operations not defined
After looking long and hard at the source to try to fix the problem, I
downloaded the newest version (0.3) and loaded that. Now my kernel
made with no problem. Next I booted with the floppy I just made. Things
were fine until I "used" my existing ext2 fs (/usr and /home). Then
errors and crash or just hang. I can reboot from hard disk (ext2fs 0.2d)
and things work fine. But every time I try with that floppy it crashes
when I use the ext2fs's.
Is this something I shouldn't do, ie, make an ext2fs with version 0.2d
then upgrade to 0.3 and expect the existing fs to be ok?????
I then tried to make a completely new file system with the new kernel
and see if that would work. When I attempted to use it I got:
Kernel Panic: ext2: get_group_desc: invalid group
Is there something more I should do besides get kernel 0.99p8 and
ext2fs 0.3??
I think that there is something BASICALLY wrong. Would moving to
0.99p9 help?? I will probably do that next, clean
everything up, and try once again.
Any ideas? Comments? Thanks in advance.
dts