After installing beta3 on an old 486 laptop and playing around a bit the entire install started falling apart. Every sector touched (even if just to update the last access time) was corrupted. I was totally shocked. This is so BAD I don't have any words for it. Why are there any settings enabled by default in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks, if this was safe don't you think the kernel would enable them by default itself? The enabling of 32bit io + lookahead hoses the toshiba hd in this toshiba laptop for sure. Please fix this ASAP, preferrably before beta4 and absolutly for beta5. Possible fixes: don't put anything enabled in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks and/or rename /etc/sysconfig/harddisks to /etc/sysconfig/harddisks.example Also having one setting for all HD's is bad IMHO, but this is more a initscripts bug.
Just saw that 32bit_io is already turned of according to bug 13730 , could you also please turn the look ahead of to be sure. (I haven't tried which one actually causes the problem)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13730 ***
Please note that that bug only talks about the 32bit io, while read_ahead is also enabled by default. Is this disabled (or left as the kernel has set it) by default now too?
done.