I'm hoping someone run into that before and can give me some pointers.
Here are my specs:
mobo: ECS K7S5A , Socket A, SiS735 Chipset, 266Mhz FSB
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 266Mhz FSB
RAM: 512 SDRAM (PC133)
HD: Western Digital 10.2GB WD102AA
I was running on slack 8.0 fine, and decided to do a fresh install of slack 8.1.
But whenever I try to install slack 8.1, when using the "setup" ... during the install of packeages I get plenty of ext2fs errors, or ext3fs or the ofther jurnaling file system .. I tried all 3 already ... also I tried both fast and slow format options, ... sometimes the format is successfull and sometimes it's not, I get ext2fs, or ext3fs file system errors (I wish I could post them in more detail but they disapear to fast for me to read through)
Now when I don't get any errors during the format and continue with the installation of packages I'll get more of the ext2fs (invalid inode value 8 instead of 0 .. I think the error is) ... but in all cases the partition is badly corrupted, and even running fsck -aC doesn't help ... fsck tells me to run fsck without -a or -p, which I do next, but the fsck is unable to repair my partition .. runs in to more trouble.
Note: I tried installing from 2 different CDs and have checked the iso file with md5sum, also tried installing from a mounted directory, ... all results were identical.
But installing slack 8.0 is successfull with no coruptions to my file system .. ext2fs, and then upgrading to slack 8.1. .. now this is interesting because all seems to be well .. all packages (that I checked .. he he) seem to work fine) ... but as soon as I boot with the new kernel /boot/vmlinuz ... my ext2fs partition is corupted again ... and fsdk is of no help
Question:
is the kernal bare.i of the new slack 8.1 causing all the coruptions to my ext2fs partition?
Solution ?
If so perhaps simply using the good old 2.4.5 kernal from 8.0 and later recompiling the 2.4.18 or the newest 2.4.?? would solve the misterious coruptions of my linux partition.
... he he ... I gues I've came up with a solution to my own problem ...
I hope that will work ... but other sugestions are welcome too, and I'm still curious what compile portion of the kernal can be causing this, or perhaps it's something else?
Sorry for my bad spelling ... I'm in a hurry to get my system up and runing ... for the last 3 days now
I'll be back in a few hours, and post if my solution worked or not ... perhaps this will help someone else too