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From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." <carlos@megatonmonkey.net>
To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Cc: nick@snowman.net
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] installing linux on HP systems
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:19:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010905101937.F22477@megatonmonkey.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010905140052.J11744@linuxcare.com>; from rhirst@linuxcare.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:00:53PM +0100

> > Hi, I've got a C180 and a 715 that I'm trying to install linux on.  The
> > C180 has various issues that I belive are being worked on, so I moved on
> > to the 715.  On the 715 I get errors allong the lines of:
> > Writing inode tables: done                            
> > Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> > # 
> > # # EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory
> > #2: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=1701996660, rec_len5
> > 
> > This happens every time I try and mount a partition.  Is the 715 scsi
> > unsupported as well?
> 
> 715 scsi is supported, and works for many people.  Sorry, I don't know
> what might be causing your problem.
> 
> Richard


We generally insert scsi-wrangling-magic as kernel parameters:

sim700=noneg:0xff,nodisc:0xff

And it works beautifully after that.

Cheers,
Carlos.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-05 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-05  5:11 [parisc-linux] PA-RISC assembly asdfsdf sdfsdf
2001-09-05  5:18 ` [parisc-linux] installing linux on HP systems nick
2001-09-05 13:00   ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-05 14:19     ` Carlos O'Donell Jr. [this message]
2001-09-05 14:39       ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-05 18:16         ` nick
2001-09-07  8:39           ` Richard Hirst
2001-09-05 14:21   ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-09-05 18:15     ` nick
2001-09-05  5:21 ` [parisc-linux] PA-RISC assembly Grant Grundler

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