Re: ISSUE: Unable to handle kernel paging... Kernel 2.2.14 on COMPAQ with 24Mb

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:40:49 EST


> In order to prove to both of our satisfactions that the new Storage is O.K., I
> took another SIMM of 8Mb that I had purchased from the same Company, which I
> was going to use to bring my System up to 32Mb later on and I switched it with
> the first new one. When I came up with it, when I attempted to do a VI command
> I got a Segmentation Fault, like I did before. Likewise, when I did a Find
> command, I got the following messages:
> EXT2-fs error (device hd(3,1)); ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #27051:
> rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=65232550, rec_len=60249, name_len=230

Ok. That elimiates hardware

> Again, I believe that there must be some serious problem in the Storage
> Management part of the Kernel.

Or the compaq is not fully PC compatible or not all the 24Mb is available.
Ok lets try something simple first - boot with mem=23Mb and see if it
behaves

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