Hi during scsi initialization the message Request for IRQ45 (ESP SCSI) SA_STATIC_ALLOC failed using kmalloc appears benign, guess I'm sensative to the word failed. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. is fine but EXT2-fs error (device sdc3): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode =83918864, rec_len=4242, name_len=0 the file system itself should be fine, 2.4.32 is running on it currently this is non-SMP and my erroneous slab path reversed. access to the disks fail so user land is unreachable I have the feeling ext2 is not a good choice for sparc, are there suggestions. the ext2 will probably still need to work, I'm digging. Thanx Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html