this was in my lofile
Aug 22 12:31:08 minitiger syslogd: exiting on signal 15
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
????
what is tried is the following (after the CD-Writing Mini-Howto it tried to create a ext2-fs image)
Logfile of Telnet-session
minitiger:~ # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /dos/a
minitiger:~ # cd /dos/a
minitiger:/dos/a # dir
total 666816
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 681574400 Aug 22 12:43 empty_file*
minitiger:/dos/a # mke2fs -m 0 empty_file
mke2fs 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
empty_file is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Linux ext2 filesystem format
Filesystem label=
166624 inodes, 665600 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
82 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2032 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 16385, 24577, 32769, 40961, 49153, 57345, 65537, 73729,
81921, 90113, 98305, 106497, 114689, 122881, 131073, 139265, 147457,
155649, 163841, 172033, 180225, 188417, 196609, 204801, 212993, 221185,
229377, 237569, 245761, 253953, 262145, 270337, 278529, 286721, 294913,
303105, 311297, 319489, 327681, 335873, 344065, 352257, 360449, 368641,
376833, 385025, 393217, 401409, 409601, 417793, 425985, 434177, 442369,
450561, 458753, 466945, 475137, 483329, 491521, 499713, 507905, 516097,
524289, 532481, 540673, 548865, 557057, 565249, 573441, 581633, 589825,
598017, 606209, 614401, 622593, 630785, 638977, 647169, 655361, 663553
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
minitiger:/dos/a # mount -t ext2 -o loop empty_file /dos/c
minitiger:/dos/a # cd /dos/c
minitiger:/dos/c # dir
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 22 13:12 lost+found/
minitiger:/dos/c # cd /
minitiger:/ # find . -mount | cpio -pvum /dos/c
after copying ca 5% the kernel solidly (i tried it 3 times) freezes :(
(and copying the whole would be a size of ca 500 MB .-> 150 MB smaller than filesize of empty_file)
I'd wish could supply more info...