From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id UAA50318 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 20:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id UAA16801079 for linux-list; Sat, 9 May 1998 20:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980205.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id UAA22495054 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 20:06:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mdhill.interlog.com (mdhill.interlog.com [199.212.154.112]) by sgi.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam) via SMTP id UAA03174 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 20:06:24 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (mike@mdhill.interlog.com) Received: (from mike@localhost) by mdhill.interlog.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id XAA02041; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:05:23 -0400 From: Michael Hill MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:05:22 -0400 (EDT) To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Evidence of Drive Activity to Report X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13652.59663.188834.236218@mdhill.interlog.com> Reply-To: mdhill@interlog.com Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Using the pre-compiled 2.1.99 from Linus (thanks, Alex) here are my results. The drive is (and was) partitioned as option drive, and I re-ran Installer. Entering 'boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdb' I get this: [snip] scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1070496 [522 MB] [0.5 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2400302 [1172 MB] [1.2 GB] sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:07:e3:0d Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 fat_read_super: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. Found 0x0 [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 0, check=n,conv=b,uid=o,gid=0,umask=022,bmap] [me=0x0,cs=0,#f=0,fs=0,fl=0,ds=0,de=0,data=0,se=8199,ts=524288,ls=30825,rc=0,fc=0] Transaction block size = 512 However, with 'boot /vmlinux root=/dev/sdb1' I get this: [snip] scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1070496 [522 MB] [0.5 GB] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2400302 [1172 MB] [1.2 GB] sgiseeq.c: David S. Miller (dm@engr.sgi.com) eth0: SGI Seeq8003 08:00:69:07:e3:0d Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed INIT: version 2.71 booting Activating swap partitions hostname: localhost Checking root filesystems. WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can. Parallelizing fsck version 1.10 (24-Apr-97) [/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a / ..and then nothing. But the main reason I believe that the SGI/Linux project is not dead is that, for the first time, the kernel made my hard drive chatter at me before giving up the ghost. Who knows what I should do next? Mike -- Michael Hill Toronto, Canada mdhill@interlog.com