xfs fails as / with Debian GNU/Linux 2.4.18-smp - 2nd post

["Lucien Meyers" <lucien.meyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi! Here was the last post 10 days ago. Suggestions welcome.

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|   Seth Mos <knuffie <at> xs4all.nl> writes:                                   
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|   > At 22:24 1-1-2003 +0100, A. Lucien Meyers wrote:                          
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|   > >Followed all your suggestions but, alas, exactly the same result.        
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|   > >Here is some of the relevant output during the boot process which        
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|   > >results in having to press the reset button:                             
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|   > >FAT: bogus logical sector size 0                                         
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|   > >FAT: bogus logical sector size 0                                         
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|   > >invalid operand: 0000                                                    
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|   > >CPU:                                                                     
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|   > >EIP:                                                                     
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|   > >EFLAGS:                                                                  
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|   > >Process swapper                                                          
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|   > >Call trace:                                                              
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|   > >Code:                                                                    
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|   > ><0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!                                
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|   > Did you try to use high optimizations  for the compile?                   
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|   Just standard setting, O2.  Do you suggest reducing this to 1 or 0?         
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|   > Or did you compile a i586 kernel on a AMD K6 machine (which often fails). 
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|   No.  Compiled a 686 smp kernel.  Have 2 Pentium Pro processors.             
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|   > I suspect that either the following might be a problem:                   
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|   > - Buggy compiler (what are you using)                                     
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|   Used gcc 2.95.  Is 3.2 required?                                            
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|   > - Compiling for the wrong architecture (what are you compiling for)       
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|   What would you suggest? i386?                                               
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|   > - Hardware problem (Failing fan, memory).                                 
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|   Probably not, as the SuSE distrib boots from an xfs partition perfectly     
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|   on another disk in the same system.                                         
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|   Lucien                                                                      
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