[ale] rm causing filesystem errors?

[Andy]

Alfred Grahame Leach wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm still trying to get a kernel compiled that I can actually
> use...  So far, I've been able to compile absolutely cleanly twice, but
> the resulting images (both on floppy and on hd) are garbage, giving crc
> errors when the machine tries to boot them.  An earlier suggestion was
> that maybe the filesystem was damaged.  I used e2fsck to fix the
> filesystem (it found several errors which were only cleaned up after
> running this utility 3 times).  I have attempted to remove the linux
> directory structure (under /usr/src) using "rm -rf linux" which causes rm
> to dump core on each successive execution, but does eventually remove the
> directory structure.  However, this hoses the filesystem all over
> again...  Any idea about why this is happening?  I'm going to clean out
> this directory structure and then run e2fsck until I get no errors, and
> then attempt to re-extract the kernel source and start over.  However,
> any ideas about why this is happening, or a good way to fix whatever's
> going on would highly appreciated.  Help me before the boss gets mad!!!
> 
> TIA
> 
> - Al
> 
> Details:
>    DELL 425s/L
>    8M RAM
>    Adaptec 1515 SCSI
>    Conner SCSI hd
>    NEC Multispin 3xp plus SCSI
>    video on motherboard w/512k
>    Intel Ether Express
>    RedHat Picasso Linux w/1.2.13 kernel (trying to build 2.0.7 kernel)
> 
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Check the hardware.  Try a newer scsi driver. Check also the BIOS
settings.
sounds like hardware. You might have bad sectors on the disk. Do a
surface
scan on the media.  Try a different Floppy disk or drive.  Try and swap
memory.