Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthew Lepper <> | Subject | Ext2 Problem | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 1996 14:34:32 -0400 |
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I recently rebooted a machine, and every time it started to mount its file systems, the screen filled with colorful character garbage, and the machine rebooted (endlessly).
Once I got the machine up with boot/root disks, I found that I could mount every partition except one (my root partition). Since I needed to get the machine up a running (it's our router), I just dumped the contents of the suspect partition to a file, and rebuilt the root file system. A post-mortem revealed:
- running e2fsck on the file (which is a copy of the partition) revealed no errors. - dumping the file to a new partion on another machine, and mounting the partition causes the same behavior.
This is a fairly normal Slackware 3.0 installation running kernel 1.2.13 (with ELF and aic7xxx patches).
I'm quite stumped by this behavior, and I will try a more recent kernel soon.
I'd appreciate any help that the filesystem gurus can provide, and I am willing to try any suggestions. A gzipped copy of the partition can be made available (it's about 10 MB).
Thanks in advance.
Matthew lepper@cmu.edu
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