Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but those do not use udev and none require the same options that genkernel seems to. I dont know if genkernel has much to do with it - OTOH, a lot of us dont use genkernel because of people always reporting problems with it... -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?
On 8/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but those do not use udev and none require the same options that genkernel seems to.I dont know if genkernel has much to do with it - OTOH, a lot of us dont use genkernel because of people always reporting problems with it... Thanks, apparently you can add yet another reason not to use it. I recompiled the kernel without using genkernel, used the grub.conf stanza below, and now this works fine. title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/sda6 udev hda=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi ro Very frustrating. Thanks for helping. Aaron
Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?
Aaron Nichols wrote: The way I'm able to recover this is to boot to the live CD, fsck.jfs/dev/sda6 and then reboot Do you have an /sbin/fsck.jfs on your root partition? Because here it doesn't exist. Hmm, you did emerge jfsutils? (Yes, you said that the remaining filesystems fsck fine, but journalled file systems do not really need to be fully checked, they just need to replay a few journal entries, and fine.) The problem I had here with reiserfs upon an irregular shutdown, was that the root partition mounted okay, replaying several journal entries, but the boot scripts refused to mount the home partition, seemingly because it was uncleanly unmounted. I've sidestepped this by changing the localmount script, to simply explicitly mount the home partition, and now all is fine after a lockup (experiments with a driver): journals get replayed and it boots on. Maybe the scripts are doing something similar wrong for you, but for the root partition, refusing to mount it because it is unclean and it gets confused by the journal? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?
On 8/7/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Nichols wrote: The way I'm able to recover this is to boot to the live CD, fsck.jfs/dev/sda6 and then rebootDo you have an /sbin/fsck.jfs on your root partition?Because hereit doesn't exist.Hmm, you did emerge jfsutils? Boy, I wish it were that easy! (~) which fsck.jfs /sbin/fsck.jfs The problem I had here with reiserfs upon an irregular shutdown,was that the root partition mounted okay, replaying several journal entries, but the boot scripts refused to mount the home partition,seemingly because it was uncleanly unmounted.I've sidesteppedthis by changing the localmount script, to simply explicitly mountthe home partition, and now all is fine after a lockup (experiments with a driver): journals get replayed and it boots on.Maybe the scripts are doing something similar wrong for you, butfor the root partition, refusing to mount it because it is uncleanand it gets confused by the journal? Perhaps, though I'm not sure how to determine that this is the cause, nor how I would fix it. I have this problem on 3 different Gentoo hosts I run (the only 3 Gentoo hosts I have) so it's not an isolated problem on one machine. Granted, all were setup by me using the guides on gentoo's site, so if I made a mistake I probably did it 3 times. I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but those do not use udev and none require the same options that genkernel seems to. Anyways, thanks for the info - if there are any other bits of useful info let me know. I'll continue to fiddle. Aaron
