GJ! Saving your solution for future reference... :) Rich
-----Original Message----- From: Jared Klett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gentoo-server] SOLVED (3.3 TB reiserfs volume not mounting at boot, and is unusable afterwards) Rich's response got me to thinking - I had seen a reference back when I was building a similar server. after some creative googling, I found it: http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/contrib/chernow/gpt.html the key note is at the bottom of the page: "Without this on, strange things happen. For instance, rebooting the machine caused the file system to no longer be mountable or the GPT table got corrupted." aha! exactly my problem! I rebooted the machine and watched the console carefully, and noted this: * System.map not found unable to check symbols hmmmm. after some more googling, I found this discussion: http://tinyurl.com/o57hm so I found the solution to making this message go away to be to copy System.map to /., which is mounted when the message pops up during the boot process, whereas /boot and /usr are not. then we edit the block at the end of /sbin/modules-update to be: if [ -d "`depdir`" -a -f /proc/modules ] then if [ -f /System.map ]; then depmod -a -F /System.map ${KV} else ewarn "System.map not found - unable to check symbols" fi fi and viola, the boot process is happy once more. as an added bonus, this resolves the issue with the filesystem being usable after a reboot, and mounting at boot time. woohoo! thanks to all that replied. it always helps to bounce ideas off others to get the juices flowing. cheers, - Jared [snip] -- [email protected] mailing list
