Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 6:53 am, Damon Register wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > something to do with a relationship with also having SCSI because I was
> > able to install on a laptop (IDE) with / being formatted to EXT3 and it
> > went just
>
> What kind of SCSI card do you have?  What are the SCSI IDs of the
> drives and which ID is set for the boot?
>
> Damon Register

Problem has been solved...  but is still very strange.

I have been running SuSE 7.3 since it came out.   Had a /home paritition that 
was ext3.   Every ran fine with 7.3.

But there was something wrong with that ext3 /home partition that caused the 
fsck.ext3 in 8.0 to segfault.  Went around in circles before I found the 
problem because at boot time, the only error message was  'fsck failed' 
without any information as to which partition had the failure.

Even doing an fsck of the /home in 7.3 didn't solve the problem.  I had to 
rsync the /home to my backup of /home2,  do a mke2fs on /home and then rsync 
back.   Once I had a 'clean'  /home   everything worked fine after that.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         05/01/02 10:15  +
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