I have a 53C895 in my PWS, running Norbert's 2.6.8, no problem.
The problem is that ext3 doesn't work because of a compiler bug in gcc-3.3 (#261893)
Loading the ext3 module causes a kernel OOPS, after which the module is still loaded, but ext3 is obviously not supported.
I have only XFS on my PWS, so I don't see the problem, as long as I force ext3 out of the initrd. The reason is that, instead of looking in /etc/fstab for the fstypes of the various partitions, the initrd tries just any supported fstype in alphabetical order. since ext3 is before xfs, I was still seeing OOPSes, even though I'm not using ext3 anywhere.
Jan-Jaap
Same exact problem on my DS20L machines, I had to drop back to 2.6.5-1-smp (obsolete but stable).
-----Original Message----- From: Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895 and QLogic ISP10x0 ?
Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are kernel-images for 2.6.8 in testing, please try these, this > sounds like a known bug. > > Norbert
I tried your suggestion, doing an 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-1-generic'
The system did boot all the way up on the new kernel after hanging for an extended period of time attempting to launch syslogd.
However, now I have a strange new problem. The system refuses to mount /var because it is an 'ext3' partition. But the root partition is an ext3 partition, and it *is* mounted. The console log shows the following relevant message:
EXT2-fs warning (device sde5): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
but then goes on as normal with everything, even saying that /var is clean:
INIT: version 2.86 booting Activating swap. Adding 1048544k swap on /dev/sde2. Priority:-1 extents:1 Checking root file system... fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) /: clean, 12002/509952 files, 82544/1019904 blocks rtc: Digital UNIX epoch (1952) detected Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 System time was Mon Aug 30 18:12:54 UTC 2004. Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. System local time is now Mon Aug 30 18:12:56 UTC 2004. Calculating module dependencies... done. Loading modules... ide-cd Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ide-detect FATAL: Module ide_detect not found. sd_mod All modules loaded. Capability LSM initialized Checking all file systems... fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) /boot: clean, 28/65536 files, 23802/131072 blocks /var: clean, 887/524288 files, 131887/1048576 blocks Setting kernel variables ... ... done.
The subsequent mount listing is
fchelp:~# mount /dev/sde5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sde4 on /boot type ext2 (rw) fchelp:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sde5 4015552 266116 3545456 7% / tmpfs 515544 0 515544 0% /dev/shm /dev/sde4 122835 15565 100717 14% /boot
But no /var mount is allowed:
fchelp:~# mount /var mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel fchelp:~# uname -a Linux fchelp 2.6.8-1-generic #1 Tue Aug 17 08:46:31 CEST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux fchelp:~# date Mon Aug 30 14:55:03 EDT 2004
How was the root partition 'forced' into ext2 mode? Can I do the same with /var, or must I redo everything as ext2? Do I have another alternative (XFS, JFS, etc.) that will work better for root or /var or both?
Thanks again, Toni
------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute Contractor - SAIC/Frederick
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