On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:52:58 +0200
Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?).

Hi,

# ls -i /boot | sort -n
140811 grub
141909 extlinux
177524 System.map-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
177525 config-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
177526 symvers-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64.gz
177542 vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64
177582 initramfs-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64.img
178327 System.map-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64
178348 initramfs-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.img
178452 config-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64
178453 symvers-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64.gz
178458 initramfs-2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64.img
178529 vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64
181915 System.map-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
181916 config-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
181917 symvers-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64.gz
181918 vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64
191634 efi
192173 elf-memtest86+-4.10
192174 memtest86+-4.10
262276 boot


Does it seem high number?

Andras

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