on 5/10/00 4:25 PM, Gregory Leblanc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> You mean, reboot and at the lilo prompt type in 'linux single'?
>
> Yep, that's what I mean.
Made no difference.
Here's a dump from my dmesg at startup, though, maybe that can shed some
light. From what I can see, md tries to grab these drives, which is where
this problem can originate from. Any idea how to prevent this from happening
(remember, these are blank, unpartitioned drives):
md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device
hdh1 [events: 0000001a](write) hdh1's sb offset: 9903488
hdg1 [events: 0000001a](write) hdg1's sb offset: 9903488
.
unbind<hdh1,1>
export_rdev(hdh1)
unbind<hdg1,0>
export_rdev(hdg1)
md0 stopped.
Bad md_map in ll_rw_block
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Bad md_map in ll_rw_block
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
(read) hdg1's sb offset: 9903488 [events: 0000001a]
(read) hdh1's sb offset: 9903488 [events: 0000001a]
autorun ...
considering hdh1 ...
adding hdh1 ...
adding hdg1 ...
created md0
bind<hdg1,1>
bind<hdh1,2>
running: <hdh1><hdg1>
now!
hdh1's event counter: 0000001a
hdg1's event counter: 0000001a
mask fffffff0
rdev->size: 9903488
masked rdev->size: 9903488
new md_size: 9903488
rdev->size: 9903488
masked rdev->size: 9903488
new md_size: 19806976
md0: max total readahead window set to 256k
md0: 2 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 128k
raid0: looking at hdg1
raid0: comparing hdg1(9903488) with hdg1(9903488)
raid0: END
raid0: ==> UNIQUE
raid0: 1 zones
raid0: looking at hdh1
raid0: comparing hdh1(9903488) with hdg1(9903488)
raid0: EQUAL
raid0: FINAL 1 zones
zone 0
checking hdg1 ... contained as device 0
(9903488) is smallest!.
checking hdh1 ... contained as device 1
zone->nb_dev: 2, size: 19806976
current zone offset: 9903488
done.
raid0 : md_size is 19806976 blocks.
raid0 : conf->smallest->size is 19806976 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 8 bytes for hash.
md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device
hdh1 [events: 0000001b](write) hdh1's sb offset: 9903488
hdg1 [events: 0000001b](write) hdg1's sb offset: 9903488
