Hello everybody.
I just reinstalled slack 10 on an old laptop. It was working fine before, but in order to satisfy my need to break things, I decided to reinstall.
Breaking things? mission accomplished.
Successfully installing slack? failed miserably.
Here's the problem. I repartitioned my 12 gig drive as follows:
/dev/hda1 5000 mb bootable mounted as / tagged as type linux
/dev/hda2 500 mb swap tagged as type linux swap
/dev/hda3 whatever was left mounted as /home tagged as type linux
All partitions were set as primary and partition table was written to disk.
I proceeded into the slack installation, adding swap and formating successfully.
I then formatted /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda3 as reiserfs and set the mount points as above.
Once I logged into the system, I checked out my disk usage.
Here's the results of df and free:
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root@shorty:/# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 4.0G 3.0G 1.1G 73% /
root@shorty:/#
root@shorty:/# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 123 120 2 0 7 64
-/+ buffers/cache: 49 74
Swap: 0 0 0
root@shorty:/#
Obviously, something is amiss. Upon checking syslog, I came across the following errors:
Code:
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: register_serial(): autoconfig failed
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: hdb: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty last message repeated 2 times
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: 8regs : 823.200 MB/sec
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: 32regs : 474.000 MB/sec
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: pIII_sse : 1005.600 MB/sec
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: pII_mmx : 1126.400 MB/sec
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: p5_mmx : 1175.600 MB/sec
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1005.600 MB/sec)
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty last message repeated 2 times
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,1)) ...
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: for (ide0(3,1))
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: ide0(3,1):Using r5 hash to sort names
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: Unable to find swap-space signature
Jan 3 23:43:25 shorty kernel: sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,3)
The above is just a portion of the syslog. It may contain more relevant info that I missed, so I uploaded it
here if anyone wants to see it in it's entirety. I also looked through dmesg, but didn't see any errors regarding the filesystem.
The only thing I did out of the ordinary was repartition in the middle of setup. I decided I wanted more space allocated to / so I quit setup and ran cfdisk again. When I ran setup again, everything formatted fine. addswap gave me a warning about configuring the swap and suggested that some command needed to be run. I said OK to whatever command it suggested (can't remember what it was exactly), and formatting of swap continued as normal and indicated success. I then went through the formatting of the / and /home partitions as I normally do. Everything seemed to work fine.
If anyone has any idea what might have went wrong, I'd really appreciate the input.
I spent some time tweaking things before I noticed the problems, so if there might be a way to fix it without reinstalling, I'd be super happy.
Thanks in advance for any advice... and sorry for such a long initial post.