From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d90.uranus.sunset.net ([209.209.117.90] helo=sunset.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 189ECI-00017m-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 19:37:31 -0500 Received: (from rreid@localhost) by sunset.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) id gA60bUH12420 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:37:30 -0800 From: "Ralph W. Reid" Message-Id: <200211060037.gA60bUH12420@sunset.net> Subject: Re: bad inodes on initrd To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 16:37:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: from "Igor Gueths" at Nov 04, 2002 08:50:38 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Igor Gueths staggered into view and mumbled: > >Hi all. When attempting to create a bootable Woody Cd, I get so far as to >boot the kernel and getting it up talking. After it mounts the root_fs on >the ramdisk, I start getting errors about bad inodes starting at about >number >2945 and going up to 2949. I would paste the messages I get in this post, >however I am unable to capture them because they eventually scroll offf >the screen. The reason being that after the inode errors sease displaying, >dbootstrap attempts to start and open /dev/tty1, and /dev/tty2. This >doesn't work because the root filesystem was not properly mounted. As a >result, the console devices are deamed nonexistant by the kernel. I tried >re-creating the filesystem and copying all the files from the root.bin of >the original iso into the newly created ext2_fs. This didn't work. I also >tried changing linuxrc to a different executable (init). Anyone have any >other ideas I should try? Thanks! I guess you are doing this on a CD, so I do not know if it is much different from setting things up on a hard drive. The Slackware setup utility includes selections for formatting a drive partition, including an error checking option--error checking is much, much slower than the fast format option, but it does actually check the hard drive for errors. Maybe you need to do something on the CD? I hope this helps. -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid@sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. 1 = x^0