Hi Kyle,

Perhaps try downloading a different root disk. Perhaps from another version of
small linux. Although that will probably lead to other problems.

The error message could come from a corrupt root disk (device 02:00) is the
floppy drive.

Steven
http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/


Quoting Kyle Root <kappy044@...>:

> I not exactly where I tell my sob story too or if you can help. :|
> Hi, I'm trying to make a word processor for my brother on an old 386 with
> about 2 and a half megs of ram so I downloaded and 'dd'ed smalllinux 0.8.1
> I put it in the drive and booted the poor beast up. I was surprised to see
> that it actually booted off the disk. I did a 'linux root=/dev/fd0
> load_ramdisk=0 as instructed and it loaded and all that went fine then it
> asked for the 'root' disk. I put the root disk in the drive pressed enter
> and received ...
> [code]
> EXT2-fs error (device 02:00) ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #2:
> rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset = 0, inode=202, rec_len=18, name_len=8
> [/code]
> times four.
> I was hoping that maybe you might be able to tell me what this mean and maybe
> a way on how to fix it. If this is not the place to give error or if you
> don't care about errors then I'm sorry I wasted your time in advance.
> Thank you,
> Kyle Root
>
>