Quoting Ryan Sablosky <rsabo5@xxxxxxxxx>: > I think that the files (if they are in /lost+found) are files that > fsck found were damaged. Someone tell me if I'm wrong, but I believe > having a file in directory means that the hard link that points to the > inode was corrupted? Something is happening that is causing that. > > BTW, I think this is a list about kernel coding/hacking/et cetera. > This seems like a question for your local LUG. I ended up reinstalling linux and I found out that the extra files were previously hidden until I asked the file browser to show the hidden files. The types of files are .gnome, .mozilla, .nautilus, etc and are in the /root directory. I did get a warning when reinstalling that it was unable to align the partition or something but I think I've had that all along. It mentioned that the problem could be ignored but fixed after installation. Anyway the linux-2.6.5-1.358 doesn't have the extra start up operations that I was concerned about but after I compiled and installed linux-2.6.11.8, that version does this procedure making comments like starting run mode 3, run mode 5, and checking for new hardware. The only other times I've this is when I havn't shut down properly and probably when I install new hardware, but I havn't done that yet. Could it be the way I compiled? I found some where that I could do something like this: make clean make mrproper cp /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/.config . make make modules_install install Clean and mrproper might nort be needed and I assume having modules_install and install on the same line just does both at once. I'm not too sure about the make command because I'm still on Fedora Core 2 and I don't know if I should still be using make bzImage and make modules. If it's none of that that caused it, could it be a new feature of the 2.6.11 that caused this or maybe a change in the configurations. I didn't make any, I just kept accepting the defaults that worked for me before. BTW, what's an LUG? > On 4/30/05, A.M. Fradley <u2amf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I only had a very small partition for linux (7 or 8 GB, I think but I have > a > > load of junk I didn't need as well) and the kernels I'd been compiling had > > filled it up. I deleted a few old ones and tried to modify grub.conf to > > correspond and I'm not sure it ended up right. I finished building the > > 2.6.11.8 kernel and assumed that the make install would fix any mistakes. > The > > kew kernel seems to boot (I'm using it now), but there's some extra > messages > > that are normally only shown if I didn't shut down properly and there seem > to > > be some extra files in the root directory that weren't there before; > random > > files/folders from elsewhere on the file system. Maybe I'm imagining > things > > but perhaps someone would notice if something was wrong with the grub file. > Or > > maybe it's just some new features that have been added. > > > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > > # > > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this > file > > # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that > > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. > > # root (hd0,4) > > # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 > > # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img > > #boot=/dev/hda > > default=0 > > timeout=10 > > splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > title Fedora Core (2.6.11.8) > > root (hd0,4) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11.8.img > > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-AMF-1) > > root (hd0,4) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-AMF-1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-AMF-1.img > > title Fedora Core (2.6.9-prep) > > root (hd0,4) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-prep ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-prep.img > > title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) > > root (hd0,4) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet > > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img > > title Windows XP > > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > > chainloader +1 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
