I recently had the pleasure of a complete reinstall and found that I can't set up palo on the new system (at least not palo that loads from an ext2/ext3 filesystem). The problem doesn't seem to be within palo itself, but the fact that mke2fs is no longer working for us. The symptom I see is that after a couple of uses the palo partition corrupts itself and then e2fsck destroys the iplboot stored in the badblocks list. The problem seems to be with the badblock list because if I do palo -I /dev/sdb Followed by a fsck -f on the palo partition, it finds errors and wants to clear the badblock inode. I can reproduce this simply by doing dd if=/dev/zero of=bbtest.img bs=1M count=100 losetup /dev/loop0 bbtest.img a=237; while [ $a -le 450 ]; do echo $a >> bblist.txt; a=$[$a+1]; done mke2fs -b 1024 -l /home/jejb/bblist.txt /dev/loop0 e2fsck -f /dev/loop0 With no palo involvement, so I don't think it's our fault. I'll take this to the ext2 tools development list. Whatever it is seems to be really old because I unearthed an mke2fs from 2011 that still has the problem. James
