Thanks for giving me the advice. Everything seems to be working so far.
The computer is booting right now. What about the kernel now, should I
try and compile again? I have been having a hard time getting my an
internet connection to work with ppp and would really like to try this
again. Not to mention that it would just be nice to know how to
recompile the kernel when I need to add something.
Thanks,
Aaron
Ralph Clark wrote:
>
> Aaron Prohaska wrote:
>
> > I was just trying to recompile my kernal and am having a major problem
> > with it. I am trying to recompile to get ppp working on the system. I
> > started by using make xconfig to change the configuration of the kernel
> > and then tried to recompile it. I typed #make dep clean zImage' to start
> > the compile of the kernel. It started out fine and then simply locked
> > up. I can't do anything with it except reboot. I am afraid of what this
> > might do to the system though. Fortionataly I am using a system I don't
> > really care about, but I don't want to have to re-install everything.
> > Does anyone know what I should do and once I reboot is there anything I
> > should check or test to make sure there is nothing wrong with the
> > system?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Aaron
> > _________________________________________________
> >
>
> Don't worry; long experience has taught me that Unix file systems in general and
> the Linux ext2fs file system in particular are very robust. When you reboot the
> system will automatically run fsck on the uncleanly-dismounted partitions and
> this will clear any lost inodes (the Unix equivalent of DOS's "lost chains").
>
> If fsck doesn't run it is either because (1) the partition was not written to
> after the last time it was mounted, or (2) you've somehow disabled fsck from
> being run automatically. If you are not sure then try to avoid writing to any of
> the partitions: bring the system down to single user mode by typing in "init S"
> then run fsck manually on each file system partition, by entering the command:
> "/sbin/fsck -t <fstype> <filesystem> ...". I expect that you will need to put
> ext2 for your fstype and <filesystem>... will be a space-separated list of all
> the disk partition device files that are formatted with ext2fs. Thus for
> example:
>
> /sbin/fsck -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3
>
> Don' t include your swap partition!
>
> If these lost nodes occur they will only be from the ends of files that were in
> the middle of being written to when the system was unexpectedly taken down.
> Normally they are insignificant temporary or "work" files from the /tmp
> directory or from editor sessions for example. Obviously any editor sessions
> just in memory will be lost but nothing else should be affected.
>
> In extreme cases (rare) a directory may be destroyed it is is being written to
> at the time, but as long as the files therein were not open for writing
> themselves, fsck will retain them intact in the 'lost+found' directory in the
> top-level directory of the partition concerned. Thus depending on how your hard
> disk is partitioned you can look in /lost+found, /usr/lost+found,
> /home/lost+found and so on. Then when you retrieve the files you only have to
> figure out what directory they live in and recreate it. However, this has never
> happened to me with Linux in the five years I've been running it despite using
> both cached and uncached disk controllers and suffering many power supply
> brownouts and other hardware failures.
>
> Ralph
>
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