Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:54:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:54:57 -0400 Received: from amsfep12-int.chello.nl ([213.46.243.17]:43291 "EHLO amsfep12-int.chello.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 00:54:56 -0400 Message-ID: <001401c241bc$e6eaf490$0200010a@jennifer> Reply-To: "Dhr N. Van Alphen" From: "Dhr N. Van Alphen" To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Cc: References: <20020811175252.GB755@gallifrey> Subject: Re: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 06:58:26 +0200 Organization: Genetics BV MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3034 Lines: 76 go install again and boot after each little step wich might been the problem, then u should know what caused it, and post the real bug here. There are too many possibilities now. Niek van alphen. MasteX@servicez.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: Cc: ; Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 7:52 PM Subject: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents) > Hi, > I've just lost the contents of my disc on my Alpha to 2.4.19 - be > careful! (luckily there wasn't anything important on it...or at least if > there was I can't remember what....) > > Some details: > 2.4.19 straight > Alpha 21164A on LX164 board > Compiled for LX164 architecture > Hard drive is an IBM 34GB Deathstar connected to the on board CMD646 > controller. > > It has been running Linux/Debian happily for ages; booted into 2.4.17, > compiled 2.4.19, booted into that and saw two problems; > 1) RTL8139 network card was identified but would not connect. I got > giant packet errors - it spitted out a 32 bit identifier which looked > like it might have got some ASCII where some value should have lived. > (It is an RTL8139 prior to the -c) > > 2) I tried to go into the directory which I'd built the kernel in and > found it didn't actually agree that it was a directory; but thought it > was a file of many GB with odd permissions. I unmounted the partition > and fsck'd - lots of errors; most complaining of invalid blocks. > debugfs seemed to indicate that lots of things in the inode had been > cleared to -1 (size, uid, gid, pretty much everything). > > 3) I hit reset and the AlphaBIOS came to the conclusion there was no > OS and it looks like the partition table has gone to the great block > in the sky. > > All tools were from Debian/unstable; updated immediatly prior to the > kernel build. > > I'd give you a log and .config if it weren't for the fact that it has > just wiped itself from the disc. hdparm looked OK from the brief look; > I think it got the drive size right. I had seen some DMA negotiation > alike errors go past during the boot. > > Oh well - time to try the Debian/Woody install process on Alpha.... > > Dave > > ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- > / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ > \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / > \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/