Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 ATA drivers which corresponds to CONFIG_ATA in your .config. Then, under Serial ATA, you'll need to turn on ATA SFF and then Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support. But bear in mind that setting these does not produce a bootable kernel on my P4 box, as I've said in another thread, so it's possible that making the suggested changes will introduce more fog rather than dispelling it. I'm not sure how likely it is though. For the record, this is now fixed. Eventually (this morning) I found a chipset option buried in the kernel config that I'd missed. The IDE disk is now /dev/sda and I can forget about /dev/hda and friends altogether. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 your .config. Then, under Serial ATA, you'll need to turn on ATA SFF and then Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support. But bear in mind that setting these does not produce a bootable kernel on my P4 box, as I've said in another thread, so it's possible that making the suggested changes will introduce more fog rather than dispelling it. I'm not sure how likely it is though. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 a few minor checks. This takes about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2 check. 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 Hi, I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3 /dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds. It's been a long time since I used ext3 so some of this might be wrong. An fsck that takes a few seconds is using the journal, which might not uncover deeper corruption. You should try disabling the journal (I couldn't find the way to do that though), but this will also work: Boot of a LiveCD, mount your root partition somewhere using type ext2 and fsck it. This will invalidate the journal but that's OK, it gets recreated on the next proper boot. Let the fsck finish - it will take a while on a large fs. 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. KH, I think that this may not be related to a fs error as such. Yes, pulling the plug may have caused fs corruption. However, more likely is that pulling the plug did not allow you to do something that you should have done after you finished upgrading to grub-0.97-r9. The latest installation of grub asks you to reinstall in the MBR and point its root to wherever your /boot is. GRUB's fs and its drivers may have changed and therefore the old boot loader code is looking for files that no longer exist. So you'll probably be alright again if you boot with a fresh systemrescue LiveCD and run grub and then root (hd) and setup (hd0) before you quit and reboot. If that doesn't work then you most likely have a fs problem. HTH. 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 /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? Regards kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. PS. When you install GRUB use tab completion to see what's available and make sure you install it in the correct drive/partition. PPS. Peter, I installed the kernel option for [*] ATA SFF support and corresponding chipset (ICH) for my P4 and it now boots fine. So I suggest that you use lshw to find which chipset you must activate under ATA SFF (unless you have one of the more modern * AHCI SATA support controllers like I have on my i7 Dell). -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. Konstantin, I'm assuming, from your original post, that you have not changed your kernel in any way over the last few months. You said that it was running fine for eight months but now after rebooting, you're in trouble. Are you *sure* you haven't made any changes to the kernel? I'm also assuming that you know that the kernel drivers for your disk controllers should not be built as modules but built into the kernel so that you don't need to go through creating an initramfs and hoping for your devices to get populated.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 have 0 0 for every partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. 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 mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. He says the pc boots fine now and he can use it and he goes on to say that he has no /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* devices, so I have to believe he's got a running system. Not having any /dev/hd* files would support the error trying to mount /boot. Trying to fix /etc/fstab first is not the way to attack his problem given the information we have now.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? 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 of why you have no /dev/hd* devices. We will also need to know what kind of disk controller your server really has. Are they IDE or SATA controllers? Hi Bill, Now I am running 2.6.30-r8 but 2.6.34-r1 is ready but not jet copied to /boot. btw it is a p3 coppermine. This is the output from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz . CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y CONFIG_IDE=y # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y CONFIG_IDE_TIMINGS=y CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_IDE_GD=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI=y # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y # IDE chipset support/bugfixes CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y # PCI IDE chipsets support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MEDIA is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set I just tried /etc/init.de/udev resart . I am getting errors not to use the script with baselayout-1 . The box is very slow now. Will reboot and see what baselayout is on it. Regards kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 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 mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. He says the pc boots fine now and he can use it and he goes on to say that he has no /dev/hd* or /dev/sd* devices, so I have to believe he's got a running system. Hmm ... he'll have to be able to hang his OS off some fs or other if it is indeed working. Unless he's running some clever ramdisk, then I would not reach the conclusion that he has a working OS. Not having any /dev/hd* files would support the error trying to mount /boot. Trying to fix /etc/fstab first is not the way to attack his problem given the information we have now. Perhaps he passed the correct path to his grub and the boot sequence fails when it tries to find the devices listed in fstab, so the OS never completes booting. Either way, hopefully the OP will shed some light to this rather than us assuming more or less what might actually be the case. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. 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 mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. 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. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 partition. The pc boots fine now. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. Konstantin, I'm assuming, from your original post, that you have not changed your kernel in any way over the last few months. You said that it was running fine for eight months but now after rebooting, you're in trouble. Are you *sure* you haven't made any changes to the kernel? I'm also assuming that you know that the kernel drivers for your disk controllers should not be built as modules but built into the kernel so that you don't need to go through creating an initramfs and hoping for your devices to get populated. Hi, I tried booting 2.6.28 / 2.6.29 / 2.6.30 . The 30 series has not been running on the box befor. Anyway the result is the same no matter which kernel I am booting. I use make oldconfig for uping the kernel. kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. I can use it but ... There is no /dev/hd* . Running mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? 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 of why you have no /dev/hd* devices. We will also need to know what kind of disk controller your server really has. Are they IDE or SATA controllers? Hi Bill, Now I am running 2.6.30-r8 but 2.6.34-r1 is ready but not jet copied to /boot. btw it is a p3 coppermine. This is the output from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz . CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y CONFIG_IDE=y # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y CONFIG_IDE_TIMINGS=y CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_IDE_GD=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI=y # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y # IDE chipset support/bugfixes CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y # PCI IDE chipsets support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MEDIA is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set I would expect to see: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y in your configuration given that it's a Coppermine. You might want to add that in the 2.6.30 and the 2.6.34 kernels, although DEV_GENERIC should give you what you need, as you are probably using that right now. Use make menuconfig to configure the kernel. Make sure it's * not M for the PIIX controller and then rebuild and install the kernel. Do you have lspci installed? The results from lspci -v would be very helpful right now. I just tried /etc/init.de/udev resart . I am getting errors not to use the script with baselayout-1 . The box is very slow now. Will reboot and see what baselayout is on it. Yeah, don't worry about this right now.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 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 mount /boot I get the answer /dev/hda1 does not exist. Also there is no /dev/sd* Any ideas? KH, if you have changed the kernel to use libATA (i.e. the newer SATA/PATA options) then you need to update your fstab from /dev/hdaX to /dev/sdaX and change your grub.conf accordingly. But he doesn't even have those devices, so this will not do him any good until we know how the kernel is configured (or not) and get the devices back. I am not sure that he does not have those devices ... I don't know if the error message is returned from grub or from the OS. It could be that the kernel stanza is wrongly pointing to /dev/hda, and, or fstab is not correct. 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 tell you?
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 tell you? udev is 151 and baselayout is 1.12.13 Regards FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 15G 8.2G 5.8G 59% / udev 10M 36K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 2.5G 0 2.5G 0% /var/tmp/portage shm 187M 0 187M 0% /dev/shm
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 of why you have no /dev/hd* devices. We will also need to know what kind of disk controller your server really has. Are they IDE or SATA controllers? Hi Bill, Now I am running 2.6.30-r8 but 2.6.34-r1 is ready but not jet copied to /boot. btw it is a p3 coppermine. This is the output from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz . CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y CONFIG_IDE=y # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y CONFIG_IDE_TIMINGS=y CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_IDE_GD=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI=y # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y # IDE chipset support/bugfixes CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y # PCI IDE chipsets support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MEDIA is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set I would expect to see: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y in your configuration given that it's a Coppermine. You might want to add that in the 2.6.30 and the 2.6.34 kernels, although DEV_GENERIC should give you what you need, as you are probably using that right now. Use make menuconfig to configure the kernel. Make sure it's * not M for the PIIX controller and then rebuild and install the kernel. Do you have lspci installed? The results from lspci -v would be very helpful right now. I just tried /etc/init.de/udev resart . I am getting errors not to use the script with baselayout-1 . The box is very slow now. Will reboot and see what baselayout is on it. Yeah, don't worry about this right now. lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [88] Vendor Specific Information ? Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ee00-efef Prefetchable memory behind bridge: eff0-f7ff 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff Memory behind bridge: ed80-edff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 [virtual] Memory at 01f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 03f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 0170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 0370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at b800 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12 I/O ports at b400 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at e800 [size=16] 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 6 I/O ports at b000 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX200] (rev b2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Device 6106 Flags:
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 /proc/config.gz so we can get an idea of why you have no /dev/hd* devices. We will also need to know what kind of disk controller your server really has. Are they IDE or SATA controllers? Hi Bill, Now I am running 2.6.30-r8 but 2.6.34-r1 is ready but not jet copied to /boot. btw it is a p3 coppermine. This is the output from zgrep IDE /proc/config.gz . CONFIG_HAVE_IDE=y CONFIG_IDE=y # Please see Documentation/ide/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives CONFIG_IDE_XFER_MODE=y CONFIG_IDE_TIMINGS=y CONFIG_IDE_ATAPI=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_IDE_GD=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA=y CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATAPI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD_VERBOSE_ERRORS=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI=y # CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set CONFIG_IDE_PROC_FS=y # IDE chipset support/bugfixes CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_SFF=y # PCI IDE chipsets support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_PCIBUS_ORDER=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_MEDIA is not set # CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL is not set # CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set I would expect to see: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y in your configuration given that it's a Coppermine. You might want to add that in the 2.6.30 and the 2.6.34 kernels, although DEV_GENERIC should give you what you need, as you are probably using that right now. Use make menuconfig to configure the kernel. Make sure it's * not M for the PIIX controller and then rebuild and install the kernel. Do you have lspci installed? The results from lspci -v would be very helpful right now. I just tried /etc/init.de/udev resart . I am getting errors not to use the script with baselayout-1 . The box is very slow now. Will reboot and see what baselayout is on it. Yeah, don't worry about this right now. lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f800 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [88] Vendor Specific Information ? Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: ee00-efef Prefetchable memory behind bridge: eff0-f7ff 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: d000-dfff Memory behind bridge: ed80-edff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 [virtual] Memory at 01f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 03f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 0170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 0370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [size=1] I/O ports at b800 [size=16] Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 12 I/O ports at b400 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 02) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at e800 [size=16] 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. TUSL2-C Mainboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 6 I/O ports at b000 [size=32] Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX200] (rev b2)
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 /dev mounted right now? What does udevadm --version tell you? udev is 151 and baselayout is 1.12.13 Yes this is indeed strange ... short of having some strange access rights or umask in your fstab ... is it the same when you ls as root user? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 this is strange. How is /dev mounted right now? What does udevadm --version tell you? udev is 151 and baselayout is 1.12.13 Yes this is indeed strange ... short of having some strange access rights or umask in your fstab ... is it the same when you ls as root user? Are there any red flags in dmesg?
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. Here in Africa we use pythons for that. Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. :-) I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( Another job for tonight when I get home. BillK 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. Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these days :) BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these days :) Glad you got it working! 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. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 told I shouldn't have CONFIG_IDE set, so I recompiled the kernel without it and lo! a kernel panic during boot. And yes, I had changed hdas to sdas. 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. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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
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 topic somewhat, when I upgraded udev on my firewall box last week I was told I shouldn't have CONFIG_IDE set, so I recompiled the kernel without it and lo! a kernel panic during boot. And yes, I had changed hdas to sdas. 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? Also, make sure you enable BLK_DEV_SR, for some reason I could get a box to boot without it. The box in question is an ancient PIII Coppermine! -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 just tried it again now, to make sure, and the answer's yes. I set all of those, and I tried adding PATA_OLDPIIX to see if it helped. It didn't, and neither did the others, so I'll have to go back to CONFIG_IDE. Also, make sure you enable BLK_DEV_SR, for some reason I could get a box to boot without it. The box in question is an ancient PIII Coppermine! Hmm. Not surprisingly, that didn't help either. Thanks anyway. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH? I've just tried it again now, to make sure, and the answer's yes. I set all of those, and I tried adding PATA_OLDPIIX to see if it helped. It didn't, and neither did the others, so I'll have to go back to CONFIG_IDE. Isn't there also some other SCSI stuff (which does not get selected automatically), necessary to make the new ATA drivers actually work? Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 be to get ICH4 drivers. Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH? I've just tried it again now, to make sure, and the answer's yes. I set all of those, and I tried adding PATA_OLDPIIX to see if it helped. It didn't, and neither did the others, so I'll have to go back to CONFIG_IDE. 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 Options --- * Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --- [*] ATA SFF support Symbol: ATA [=y] Prompt: Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers I also have a P4 but I haven't yet switched off the deprecated drivers. Will have a go later in the week and see what gives. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 Options --- * Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --- [*] ATA SFF support Symbol: ATA [=y] Prompt: Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers I did have that selected, of course. I also have a P4 but I haven't yet switched off the deprecated drivers. Will have a go later in the week and see what gives. I'll be interested to hear how you get on. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 check. 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 Hi, I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3 /dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds. It's been a long time since I used ext3 so some of this might be wrong. An fsck that takes a few seconds is using the journal, which might not uncover deeper corruption. You should try disabling the journal (I couldn't find the way to do that though), but this will also work: Boot of a LiveCD, mount your root partition somewhere using type ext2 and fsck it. This will invalidate the journal but that's OK, it gets recreated on the next proper boot. Let the fsck finish - it will take a while on a large fs. When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 takes about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2 check. 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 Hi, I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3 /dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds. It's been a long time since I used ext3 so some of this might be wrong. An fsck that takes a few seconds is using the journal, which might not uncover deeper corruption. You should try disabling the journal (I couldn't find the way to do that though), but this will also work: Boot of a LiveCD, mount your root partition somewhere using type ext2 and fsck it. This will invalidate the journal but that's OK, it gets recreated on the next proper boot. Let the fsck finish - it will take a while on a large fs. 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. KH, I think that this may not be related to a fs error as such. Yes, pulling the plug may have caused fs corruption. However, more likely is that pulling the plug did not allow you to do something that you should have done after you finished upgrading to grub-0.97-r9. The latest installation of grub asks you to reinstall in the MBR and point its root to wherever your /boot is. GRUB's fs and its drivers may have changed and therefore the old boot loader code is looking for files that no longer exist. So you'll probably be alright again if you boot with a fresh systemrescue LiveCD and run grub and then root (hd) and setup (hd0) before you quit and reboot. If that doesn't work then you most likely have a fs problem. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 about 4 seconds, not the 40 minutes it takes to do a ful ext2 check. 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 Hi, I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3 /dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds. It's been a long time since I used ext3 so some of this might be wrong. An fsck that takes a few seconds is using the journal, which might not uncover deeper corruption. You should try disabling the journal (I couldn't find the way to do that though), but this will also work: Boot of a LiveCD, mount your root partition somewhere using type ext2 and fsck it. This will invalidate the journal but that's OK, it gets recreated on the next proper boot. Let the fsck finish - it will take a while on a large fs. 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 to invalidate the journal or mount ext2, just use -f if memory serves, be sure the partition is unmounted and that will force a full check. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 pythons for that. Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 to invalidate the journal or mount ext2, just use -f if memory serves, be sure the partition is unmounted and that will force a full check. Yes, -f does seem to be the right option. It's been ages since I used ext3 and I have no real way to do a test, so I played safe. And the man page could be a little more descriptive too, -f left me with more questions than answers. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. Here in Africa we use pythons for that. Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. :-) I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( Another job for tonight when I get home. BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. 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. That I might want to try the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193 device Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? 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 check. 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. 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. That I might want to try the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193 device Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? 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 check. 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 ... 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. That I might want to try the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193device Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? 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 check. 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 -f /dev/hda3 to force check a partition. I have had to do that when my kids yanked all the drives out of a server that I was setting up. :-) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 the full system check after replaying the journal. RobbieAB
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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. That I might want to try the alternativ superblock by running #e2fsck -b 8193 device Well, I put the hdd in an external usb and conected it to my workstation. As I thought hda3 (is /dev/sde3) is an ext3 filesystem. Also badblocks and e2fsck did not show any problem with the hdd. /etc/fstab is corect (i hope), too. What am I missing? How can I get the server running, again? 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 check. 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 Hi, I ran on the two partitions e2fsck /dev/sde3 as well as fsck.ext3 /dev/sde3 . Yes, it only took some seconds. Regards kh
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck
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 -f /dev/hda3 to force check a partition. I have had to do that when my kids yanked all the drives out of a server that I was setting up. :-) Hi again, # e2fsck -fv /dev/sde3 e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) Durchgang 1: Prüfe Inodes, Blocks, und Größen Durchgang 2: Prüfe Verzeichnis Struktur Durchgang 3: Prüfe Verzeichnis Verknüpfungen Durchgang 4: Überprüfe die Referenzzähler Durchgang 5: Überprüfe Gruppe Zusammenfassung 356415 inodes used (36.63%) 10396 non-contiguous files (2.9%) 236 non-contiguous directories (0.1%) # von Inodes mit ind/dind/tind Blöcken: 7917/121/0 2191858 blocks used (56.32%) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 315130 regular files 31986 directories 1051 character device files 4089 block device files 1 fifo 2397 links 4147 symbolic links (4027 fast symbolic links) 2 sockets 358803 files Well this does not look bad, does it? Regards kh No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. cool sig!
