[ale] Unknow error in RH 7.2

Jeff Layton laytonjb at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 24 13:52:26 EST 2002



Wow! I sure had fumble fingers on that one. I'm correcting
the error message below (I won't correct all of the other
typos).


Sorry,

Jeff


Jeff Layton wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I finally got RH 7.2 to install on my new box. The box
> looks like:
>
> Epox 8KHA+ motherboard (KT 266A chipset)
> 512 Meg DDR DRAM
> WD 200BB HD
> S3 Savage 2000 64 Meg card (set at AGP 4x)
> NEC 5FGp monitor
> Intel NIC
> CD
> floppy
>
> I partitioned the the HD to look like,
>
> /boot      /dev/hda1    100 Megs   ext2
> /              /dev/hda2    4 Gigs         ext3
> /usr/local   /dev/hda3   3 Gigs     ext3
> /opt        /dev/hda5        3 Gigs     ext3
> /swap    /dev/hda6     1 Gig
> /usr/home   /dev/hda7    8.95 Gigs   ext3
>
> I could not get the X installed for RH 7.2 to work
> at all, so I used the text based installed. When I
> tried to configure X during the last phase of the
> installation, it would never come up. So I gave up and
> figure I'd come back latter.
>    When I reboot the box, I get some error messages
> when it starts the xfs service, but they flash by too fast
> to read. However, the login prompt comes up and I try
> loging-in as myself and root. I get the same error
> message,
>
> p_.minfo.mi_magic2 == 0x5555
> Stopping myself....

p->minfo.mi_magic2 == 0x5555
Stopping myself...


>
>
> and the login is frozen. I switch to another virtual
> console and of course I get the exact same thing.
>    Any ideas what this error message means? The
> install went fine (as far as I could tell). I think this is
> a filesystem error, but I'm not sure.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff
>
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