Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-11-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 29 July 2010 12:39:46 I wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:14:05 Bill Longman wrote: In the Device Drivers section, (this is for 2.6.34!), turn OFF the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. That corresponds to CONFIG_IDE in your .config. Then, turn ON, Serial ATA and Parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:14:05 Bill Longman wrote: In the Device Drivers section, (this is for 2.6.34!), turn OFF the deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. That corresponds to CONFIG_IDE in your .config. Then, turn ON, Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers which corresponds to CONFIG_ATA in

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 25.07.2010 15:57, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 25 July 2010 09:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 01:50 AM, KH wrote: Hi, I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On 28 July 2010 15:27, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 07:04 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 16:04, schrieb Mick: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 15:53, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 01:50 AM, KH wrote: Hi, I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my workstation. This did not change anything. Also I changed /etc/fstab . Now I have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 16:04, schrieb Mick: On 28 July 2010 14:53, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/28/2010 06:42 AM, Mick wrote: On 28 July 2010 09:50, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: I installed grub by connecting the hdd to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me this is strange. How is /dev mounted right now? What does udevadm --version

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread KH
Am 28.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: Konstantin, please post what your kernel has for IDE support. If you have /proc/config.gz, then please post the results from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz so we can get an idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 09:37 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:27, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 07:56 AM, KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 15:45, schrieb Bill Longman: Konstantin, please post what your kernel has for IDE support. If you have /proc/config.gz, then please post the results from zgrep IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:35:44 KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me this is strange. How is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-28 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/28/2010 11:54 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2010 17:35:44 KH wrote: Am 28.07.2010 17:30, schrieb Bill Longman: On 07/28/2010 08:18 AM, KH wrote: Hi Mick, but typing ls /dev/hd* or ls /dev/sd* should show up something. Shouldn't it? df -h shows /dev/hda3 is mounted on / For me

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:05 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. And I would stand

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Mick
On 26 July 2010 11:54, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1 swapped :( Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal bus.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 July 2010 12:02:56 Mick wrote: Another gotcha is when you disable the deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the kernel and you don't update your grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. Drifting off topic somewhat, when I upgraded udev on my firewall box last week I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these days :) BillK Mine still works well. Just have to blow out the dust every month or so. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Mick
On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 26 July 2010 12:02:56 Mick wrote: Another gotcha is when you disable the deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the kernel and you don't update your grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. Drifting off

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers. Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Mick
On Monday 26 July 2010 19:04:16 Alex Schuster wrote: Peter Humphrey writes: On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote: On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 box it has to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 26 July 2010 21:46:40 Mick wrote: On Monday 26 July 2010 19:04:16 Alex Schuster wrote: Isn't there also some other SCSI stuff (which does not get selected automatically), necessary to make the new ATA drivers actually work? You mean: Device Drivers --- Generic Driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make a few minor checks. This takes about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 July 2010 09:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make a few minor checks. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 06:57:43 KH wrote: You said you ran e2fsck and it was OK. What was the command? Normally with an e2fsck on a journalled fs, the app will replay the journal and make a few minor checks. This takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. Here in Africa we use

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 25 July 2010 17:24:46 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. You don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ... Anyway the box won't boot anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ... Anyway the box won't boot anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread James Wall
On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, my server was running strait for 8 month now. I did updates regularly but still used an 2.6.2x kernel. Never switched it of. Now someone from houskeeping pulled the plug for the vacuum cleaner ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I think you might need to fsck without the journal. I know there's a way to do this but a cursory glance at the man page didn't reveal it. Maybe an ext user will chip in with the correct method e2fsck -f should run

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread KH
Am 24.07.2010 22:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Saturday 24 July 2010 21:57:38 KH wrote: Hi there, [...] Anyway the box won't boot anymore. grub starts up. Kernel boots. Then there is checking root file system (or something like that).The message is that my ext2 file system can not be read.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread KH
Am 24.07.2010 23:46, schrieb James Wall: On 7/24/2010 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: I think you might need to fsck without the journal. I know there's a way to do this but a cursory glance at the man page didn't reveal it. Maybe an ext user will chip in with the correct method Run e2fsck