[syslinux] extlinux 3.20-pre8 notes

[Jim Cromie]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> All this indicates some serious weirdness in your filesystem... not 
> that I have a good explanation for it, but it is definitely bizarre.
>
ack. 
99%+ I run from nfs, so the CF goes unmaintained.
I just fsckd it, it fixed some block bitmap diffs, free-blocks counts,
and put 4 new files in /lost+found.

still, some oddness remains.
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot# rm extlinux.sys
rm: remove write-protected regular file `extlinux.sys'? y
rm: cannot remove `extlinux.sys': Operation not permitted

fwiw:
Disk /dev/hda: 512 MB, 512483328 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         993      500440+  83  Linux


[   27.436747] hda: SanDisk SDCFB-512, CFA DISK drive008000000 (usable)
[   27.446641] Probing IDE interface ide1...- 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[   27.455662] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[   27.471561] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[   27.475758] hda: 1000944 sectors (512 MB) w/1KiB Cache, 
CHS=993/16/639fc00 end: 000000000009fc[   27.484777]  hda: hda1one: 
28672 pages, LIFO batch:7


I know this is veering OT, so I wont belabor it (time to re mkfs)
but is there anything/place to know / go read up on any gotchas with 
ext2 on CFs ?


>>
>> (its the dot after ^g in the following stanza)
>
> Is that a <ctrl-G> or a caret followed by g?
>
thats a caret Gee.  ie a hotkey.

> It shouldn't break the line there, so something is weird.

yes, it continues to be - and I cant delete the old /boot/extlinux.sys

soekris:/mnt/flash/boot# ll extlinux.sys
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 9320 May 28  2005 extlinux.sys
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot#
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot# chmod +w extlinux.sys
chmod: changing permissions of `extlinux.sys': Operation not permitted
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot#
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot# rm -f extlinux.sys
rm: cannot remove `extlinux.sys': Operation not permitted
soekris:/mnt/flash/boot#


>
>     -hpa
>

thanks for the help.