Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:15:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Tobias Ringstrom <> | Subject | 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount |
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I've never seen anything like it before, which I'm happy for. The system had been running a standard RedHat 7 kernel for days without any problems, but who wants to run a 2.2 kernel? I compiled 2.4.0 for it, rebooted, and blam! The RedHat init stripts got to the "remounting root read-write" point, and just froze solid.
Rebooting into RH7 failed, becauce inittab could not be found. In fact the filesystem was completely messed up, with /dev empty, lots of device nodes in /etc, and files missing all over the place. I had to reinstall RH7 from scratch.
I do not understand how this could happen during a remounting root rw. Is the filesystem really that unstable?
Am I right in suspecting DMA, which was enabled at the time? Any other ideas? Is it a known problem?
This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller:
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06)
[I know this is not a very good trouble report, but it will have to do for the time beeing. I hope to do more testing at a later time.]
/Tobias
PS. This is _not_ the same system that I reported IDE busy errors for.
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