i'm having a hardware failure somewhere and i can't seem to pinpoint it. I *think* it's a problem with one of the hard drives, but not quite sure.
there are 3 identical drives in it on an IDE RAID controller. Whenever I have all three drives active in the logical drive (RAID 0), then the install will complete, but when it comes time to boot, I get a kernel panic:
crcerror<6> freeing initrd memory: VFS: cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
If i do the install with a certain drive (channel 3) not included in the logical drive, then it boots up fine. This makes me think that the drive is bad...
I booted to the rescue disk, and ran fsck on it, and it just kept looping through hundreds of inode misconfigurations, but never said anything about bad blocks.
I suspected that possibly the memory was bad as well, so I downloaded the ISO version of Memtest86+ and ran those tests. Memtest stopped responding in the exact same spot each time I ran it. I tried running it on each stick of memory individually, but got the same results. I think this might have something to do with the fact that memtest was on a CD, and I was unable to set the ECC option (there is ECC ram in it).
So, I plan on calling Dell and warranting the drive, but wanted to make sure there isn't anything I haven't tried yet to pinpoint the problem... I think that the fact that an install works without the drive, but not with the drive tells me a lot... But I might put memtest on a floppy just to be sure...
thanks for listening ;-)
-rtw
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