Did you compile in SATA support for the kernel (under SCSI low level drivers IIRC)?
Yes.
If so, did you compile support for the Promise FT (not as a module)?
Its been several days, but as far as I know I compiled in everything needed. I did not do any modules.
When it boots it successfully accesses the drive. It mounts the root partition fine. However, for some reason it seems to be mounting it as readonly. I think this may be a part of the problem.
When checking root filesystem it says:
Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay.
It then remounts root as read/write OK.
Naively it seems that when it attempts to mount the sysfs at /sys that root is read-only and therefore can't write the mtab file. I don't know just guessing. But I don't know why the proc succeeds at /proc.
I would boot up with the livecd, mount your / partition and comment out the /home mount (this probably isn't the problem, but it is a start to debugging...only include the necessary elements until you discover the problem).
I did that. Oddly enough it gets the boot further along.
It now gets past the *Mounting local filesystems ... OK #It previously locked up here. *Activating (possibly) more swap ... OK *Caching service dependencies ... OK
This is where it locks up now.
I wouldn't think this to be a problem, but I do not have a swap partition. I have 4GB ram and really don't want any memory swapping.
Also, as the install guide suggests, is /dev file system support compiled into the kernel (and automount for it). If you are using the 2.6 kernel, you also need /dev/pts.
Got it.
I have 2 240 Opterons as well, but my / partition is ext3. I had problems with X locking up when I used XFS or ReiserFS. my fstab is: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0
let me know if you find out the problem!
Will do.
Hopefully the above will help with diagnosis.
Thanks.
Jimmie Houchin
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