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Subject2.4.1 not fully sane on Alpha - file systems
I just tried to boot 2.4.1 kernel on Alpha UP1100.  This machine
happens to have two SCSI disks on sym53c875 controller and two IDE
drives hooked to a builtin "Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE".
It boots and in the first moment makes even a pretty good impression
of beeing healthy. But an attempt to compile something causes the
whole setup to start behaving weird, with a compiler obviously unable
to find both itself and the right sources, and the whole thing ends in
a silent lockup.

On the second boot I tried to copy kernel sources from a SCSI to an
IDE drive. This time I got something in my logs and the same stuff
was printed on my screen before everything lockded up really tight
again (no sysrq). Here it is:

kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: 08:05: rw=0, want=198500353, limit=5779456
kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: 08:05: rw=0, want=4294934529, limit=5779456
kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: 08:05: rw=0, want=198500353, limit=5779456
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,5)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in
directory #250255: directory entry across blocks - offset=0,
inode=198505472, rec_len=32768, name_len=255

(and the machine dies at this point).

There is nothing wrong with this device and a file system on it.
Copying the same way, or compiling the same sources, but when booted
with 2.2.18 does not present a whiff of trouble and e2fsck, luckily
enough, finds my file systems still in place. One should be grateful
for small favours.

Anybody have seen something similar?

Michal
michal@harddata.com

p.s. I find a bit humorous the fact that the code required to
recognize that one has _some_ partition table (I happen to have two
kinds at the moment) is billed in a config file as ADVANCED.
It did the job anyway. :-)
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