Well, that makes things significantly better.... I can mount my filesystem now, tho I still get errors like: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #894638: unaligned directory entry - offset=4068, inode=544829025, rec_len=28261, name_len=116 But, it does boot. My serial console stopped (standard NS16550) working, tho.... as did a custom NVRAM driver. Oddly enough, it's only /dev/console that stopped working (actually, it no longer appears on my filesystem?!?) -- the getty running on /dev/ttyS0 works just fine. Regardless, the DMA patch should definately go in. I'm still looking into the other problems... we'll see what I come up with. Matt -- Matthew D. Dharm Senior Software Designer Momentum Computer Inc. 1815 Aston Ave. Suite 107 (760) 431-8663 X-115 Carlsbad, CA 92008-7310 Momentum Works For You www.momenco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org > [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org]On Behalf Of Brian Murphy > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:57 AM > To: Linux-MIPS > Cc: Matthew Dharm > Subject: Re: fs problem between 2.4.19-rc1 and tip? > > > Matthew Dharm wrote: > > >Is anyone else seeing a problem using SCSI disks (ext2 format) that > >was introduced between 2.4.19-rc1 and the tip revision? > > > >Upon booting the 2.4.20-pre6 (tip of CVS), the root > filesystem throws > >an error about an "unaligned directory entry" and then cannot find > >init. > > > > > This sounds like a problem I had with cache flushing in > pci.h which got > triggered > by a change in the ide dma driver. Is it a pci driver? If > so you could > try the fix > I submitted a few days ago with ide-dma in the subject line. > > /Brian > >
