Kernel

Have you tried booting to a floppy? At what point does it choke?


On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Bryce wrote:
> Alright thank you. However, to upgrade the file systems I need to be able
> to start the kernel. Somebody, please help if you've had experience with it
> stopping on "Freeing up unused kernel memory:"!
>
> Bryce C.
> Network Administrator / Scripting Consultant
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce@BryceCo.Net
> http://www.BryceCo.Net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Josh
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:11 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Kernel
>
>
> It's called ReiserFS. It's a journaling filesystem with FAR greater speed
> and stability and ext2, AND ext3. It is used best when dealing with large
> amounts of small files (ie: everything in unix). www.namesys.com for more
> info. It's also the default FS of a large amount of newer and updating
> linux distros.
>

>     - Josh Reynolds

>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:
>
> > Bryce wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey Guys,
> > > I've been having trouble rebooting my server recently. Due to a
> careless
> > > workman, the power cord to my server was pulled out and I had to go
> through
> > > the whole headache of fsck.ext2-ing all the partitions on a busy, 60gig
> hard
> > > drive. What a night mare. Long story short, this has happened once
> before
> > > in the summer when things were slow and I could try fifty-million things
> a
> > > day. Now things are busy and I can't do much to restore the crucial
> server.
> > > Anyway, would those willing please donate your x86 architecture kernel,
> > > preferably Mandrake 8, to http://www.bryceco.net/kernel/.
> >
> > there is also a new FS type that is roubust to such chrashes... I have
> > not had time to play around with it myself, but I am sure someone here
> > can point you to it. That is of course an upgrade...
> >
> > EBo --
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