http://www.partimage.org/speakimage_index.php3 Greg On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Greg. Ok will do. What's this speakimage you're refering to? It just > doesn't ring a bell grin! > > May you code in the power of the source, > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch. > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > If you can, dump busybox, and go for init and all other regular binaries. > > > > We're having busybox problems in speakimage right now, and will be switching over to init as soon as I get time to do it. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:23:31PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi Ralph. Btw, my system is working fine, its this bootable Cd distro that > > > I can't get quite working yet. Now I have tried changing the ramdisk size > > > to 32768 and it still doesn't work. I have noticed all the problems come > > > after starting busybox. The filesystem is mounting properly, or this is > > > what the kernel reports during its half boot sequence. Does anyone know if > > > busybox does any filesystem checks and perhaps this is what is causing the > > > problems? Does anyone know if perhaps I throw in the regular binaries > > > busybox uses and that fixes it? Thanks! > > > > > > May you code in the power of the source, > > > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, > > > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch. > > > > > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Ralph W. Reid wrote: > > > > > > > Igor Gueths staggered into view and mumbled: > > > > > > > > > >Hi all. Well after digging into this problem a bit further, I figured out > > > > >that the 1:0 reported in the errors about ext2_read_inode were refering to > > > > >/dev/ram0 according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. That > > > > >would explain why changing the root.bin image never fixed the problem. > > > > >Does anyone know why /dev/ram0 would report this type of error after the > > > > >kernel mounted the EXT2_fs using the initrd? One thing I am going to try > > > > >is to change the ramdisk_size to 16385 KB. It is currently set to 4096, > > > > >and vanilla flavor is what isolinux is defaulting to at the moment. Does > > > > >anyone have any other suggestions besides changing the disksize? Thanks! > > > > > > > > Hmmm. I wonder if this is an indication of a bit of bad RAM. I have > > > > heard that Linux is not very tolerant of bad memory, but RAM problems > > > > are rare enough that I have never heard exactly how they manifest > > > > themselves. If all else fails (and I do mean _all_ else), you might > > > > try swapping memory module locations on your mother board to see if > > > > this affects the situation at all. RAM failures are very rare, but > > > > they can happen. The simple RAM test performed during system boot > > > > can miss some memory errors, but this is pretty rare as well. I hope > > > > you can get your system working soon. > > > > > > > > Have a _great_ day! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > > > > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > > > > Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. > > > > y = x ^ LOG_B (x, y) > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
