I'm getting a whole bunch of errors while tying to use Linux, such as: crc error system halted ext2 error in superblock free_one_bmd: bad directory entry 00000008 trying to free non-existent swap-page segmentation fault currupted filesystem
These errors come completely at random. Sometimes during installation of the base system, but usually during installation of packages. I've tried to install Debian 2.1.6 beta (slink), but also various older versions of Linux (a total of four). All of them gave the same errors, quite at random. Windows 95 doesn't experience any errors at all and works fine. I've partitioned every byte of the disk for windows and it worked OK, so there are no physical disk errors on the surface. Sound, Zip, CD, Ethernet, everything works fine under windows. Moving the IDE devices to other positions didn't help, the same problems came up. I've tried changing the partition size (5GB 4GB 3GB 2000MB 800MB) both with and without swap partition. Nothing worked. Several times I managed to get a base system on the disk, which booted OK, but when I started installing packages or moving things around on the disk, the same errors popped up (appearently at random.) I've tried to disable several features of the disk with hdparm, but it didn't seem to work either. This is my system: Processor: Intel Pentium II (Slot 1) 350 MHz 512 kb cache (write back) Motherboard: Chaintech 6BTM i440BX - W977TF Bios release 11/06/98 IDE Devices: Linux reports i82371 PIIX Triton ATA chips. Pr. Master: Western Digital Caviar AC310100B LBA 1232/255/63 UDMA 10.1 GB w/512kb cache Sec. Master: AOpen CD-ROM (ATAPI) Sec. Slave: IOMega ZIP100 IDE (ATAPI) Memory: DIMM SDRAM 128 single bank Video: S3 AGP 4MB - 362B PCI: Creative SB PCI64 NE2000 NIC I have no clue what to do next, so if anyone has some options, I'm willing to try them out. Thanks in advance. Vincent Berk.
