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 -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
