[ale] Unknow error in RH 7.2

[Jim Philips]

I found one person who reported a similar problem by searching on
Google. He says it was caused by a defective IDE cable. He solved it by
replacing the cable. Don't know if this makes any sense for your
situation, though.


On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 13:52, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> Wow! I sure had fumble fingers on that one. I'm correcting
> the error message below (I won't correct all of the other
> typos).
> 
> 
> Sorry,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I finally got RH 7.2 to install on my new box. The box
> > looks like:
> >
> > Epox 8KHA+ motherboard (KT 266A chipset)
> > 512 Meg DDR DRAM
> > WD 200BB HD
> > S3 Savage 2000 64 Meg card (set at AGP 4x)
> > NEC 5FGp monitor
> > Intel NIC
> > CD
> > floppy
> >
> > I partitioned the the HD to look like,
> >
> > /boot      /dev/hda1    100 Megs   ext2
> > /              /dev/hda2    4 Gigs         ext3
> > /usr/local   /dev/hda3   3 Gigs     ext3
> > /opt        /dev/hda5        3 Gigs     ext3
> > /swap    /dev/hda6     1 Gig
> > /usr/home   /dev/hda7    8.95 Gigs   ext3
> >
> > I could not get the X installed for RH 7.2 to work
> > at all, so I used the text based installed. When I
> > tried to configure X during the last phase of the
> > installation, it would never come up. So I gave up and
> > figure I'd come back latter.
> >    When I reboot the box, I get some error messages
> > when it starts the xfs service, but they flash by too fast
> > to read. However, the login prompt comes up and I try
> > loging-in as myself and root. I get the same error
> > message,
> >
> > p_.minfo.mi_magic2 == 0x5555
> > Stopping myself....
> 
> p->minfo.mi_magic2 == 0x5555
> Stopping myself...
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > and the login is frozen. I switch to another virtual
> > console and of course I get the exact same thing.
> >    Any ideas what this error message means? The
> > install went fine (as far as I could tell). I think this is
> > a filesystem error, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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