On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been
> > pulling my hair out.
> >
> > The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own hard
> > drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or that the
> > superblock doesn't describe a valid ext2 filesystem.
> *All* of the drivers could be too much. There is a generic driver which
> can prevent the "right" driver from taking over. In that case you end up
> with a /dev/hda node and no DMA. Try to deactivate "Generic ATA support"
> = CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC and "generic/default IDE chipset support" =
> CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC.
> I think it is the second option that causes that problem. However, you
> won't need the first option, either.
I tried this, first without success. I then ran through all combinations of
sda3, sdb3, hda3, hdb3 in /etc/fstab. This didn't work.
> Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also
> support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in
> the running kernel and compiles them into the new kernel. It is very
> helpful when you already have a good but generic kernel like the one on
> your live CD.
I tried this, next. At least now, I believe I have a viable kernel. But it
still didn't work.
> If even that doesn't help, it might be possible that the device
> numbering has changed and your hard disk is detected as /dev/sdb or so.
> Try mounting it by UUID (google for it, please).
I tried this. Only now, fsck.ext2 tells me that it can't resolve the UUID.
Here is the new fstab:
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
UUID=ba7511dd-a5f9-48d8-8102-cf71c08a0c7b / ext2 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
At this point, I'm going to move the drive to a different port on the SATA
chain; shouldn't change anything, but I'm running out of ideas. I'll also
check the BIOS for anything stupid-obvious.
So, I guess I'm still stuck!
> Hope this helps,
> Florian Philipp
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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.
