Hi, when I installed Debian 1.1 about 6 months ago I had filesystem corruption problems during and after installation. My box had a NCR53c810 on-board SCSI adapter so I had to use one of the special boot disks. After fighting with the installation for a couple of days I realized that the boot disks for the NCR53c810 had a kernel compiled with some parameters that caused problems in my hardware setup. I solved the problem by creating a boot disk (using the bootdisk package) with a kernel customized for my hardware.
Now, my system has been up and running for half a year with no problems at all. I also upgraded succesfully to 1.2. Why don't you try re-installing with a custom boot disk that has a custom kernel just for you hardware? Regards, E.- > > I am gradually getting desperate. > > Almost every time I turn on my linux box e2fsck finds massive errors. > Often times somewhere under /usr/lib/terminfo. I have no idea what > I could be doing wrong. I always shutdown my system with a proper > shutdown or halt command. > > Here is a short description of my setup: > > I am using 2 x 2GB Quantum SCSI HDs. > > On the first there is a Win95, a Win3.11 partition and 2 FAT data > partitions. At the very end of this HD there is the OS/2 Boot Manager. > > On the second HD, there is another Win 3.11 partition (primary partition) > and the root, var and swap partitions for Linux. /home is a link to > /var/home, /usr is on the root partition. Hm, did I forget anything > important? Oh, yes, I've got the Debian 1.2.4 distribution installed. > > At first, I thought that Win95 is the reason for this behavior, but > in the meantime I found that I get these errors even if I didn't > boot any other OS in between. So there must be something else wrong. > > Two days ago it became even worse: I got fs errors while the system > was running. All kinds of bad message appeared in my console. I wanted > to save them so I could tell you the exact words here, but all I got > was "Cannot save, fatal fs errors" or something similar. :-( > > Please help, I have no idea how to fix this! > > Thanks so much in advance, > Andy. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Andy Spiegl, PhD Student, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl > PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 > o _ _ _ > --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) > ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ > ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323