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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about 2.4.18 and ext3
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:41:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C96510A.24CDE6BC@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020318180158.2886dd4a.colin@colino.net>

Colin Leroy wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I really hope I'm not asking a FAQ, i looked in the archives since 15 Feb
> and didn't see anything about this.
> 
> I upgraded from 2.2.20 to 2.4.18 on my powerbook two weeks ago, and
> compiled ext3 in the kernel in order to quietly crash :)
> 
> However, I had about a dozen strange crashes, sometimes when the computer
> woke up from sleep, sometimes when launching a program : every visible
> soft died, then X, then blackscreen, and the computer didn't even answer
> pings. So I reset the computer and here, each time, yaboot (ppc equivalent
> of lilo) told me that "cannot load image". Booting and fscking from a
> rescue CD showed that superblock was corrupt.

It may be a yaboot/ext3 incompatibility.  Your version of yaboot
may not know how to mount a needs-recovery ext3 filesystem.
There are some words on this at
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html

I am told that yaboot 1.3.5 and later will do the right thing.
What version are you using?

-

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-18 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-18 17:01 question about 2.4.18 and ext3 Colin Leroy
2002-03-18 17:27 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 18:07   ` Colin Leroy
2002-03-18 20:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-19  7:57   ` Håkon Alstadheim
2002-03-19 17:57     ` Mike Fedyk

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