Hi Andras,

On 2014-06-17, at 11:08, Andras Horvath <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:50:17 +0200
> Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> I've got the following server:
>>> 
>>> DELL Poweredge T110 II
>>> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 
>>> [Falcon] (rev 03)
>>> System is SL 6.5 64 bit with hw raid 1 setup, so array is seen as sda
>> 
>> is that a Dell card?
> 
> I don't know but it came with the server preinstalled. I can look after this 
> info if it can help.

Looks like an H310. I just booted an R420 with such a card into -431.17.1 and 
it works just fine. Here's the lspci -nn data: 

01:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 
[Falcon] [1000:0073] (rev 03)

>>> I'm having problem with the latest kernel version for some time now. The 
>>> previous kernel version boots fine and everything works just well, but the 
>>> latest kernel (v2.6.32-431.17.1.el6.x86_64) cannot boot and Grub says 
>>> something like "trying to reach blocks outside of partition" and that's all 
>>> the message there is and boot hangs.
>> 
>> If it's really Grub saying this, the kernel hasn't even started. Is /boot a 
>> separate partition? Size and fs? Have you fsck'ed it? Checked free space and 
>> inodes? Tried to reinstall the kernel and the initramfs?
> 
> Since this is a hardver Raid, I can see only a single sda device. I have also 
> only a single root partition, the boot is not a separate one. The size is 1.8 
> TB (2 x 2 TB disks in the array, the raid BIOS of the card does not show any 
> problem). I've got plenty of free space and should not be at the limit of the 
> inodes either I believe. Also, I entirely reinstalled the kernel thinking 
> that something could have gone wrong during the update, but it gives the same 
> result.

It really seems Grub has trouble with your /boot. Maybe due to a filesystem 
inconsistency. Maybe due to a large inode number it can't deal with (does "ls 
-i /boot" reveal anything unusual?).

Cheers,
        Stephan

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Stephan Wiesand
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Platanenallee 6
15738 Zeuthen, Germany

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