Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and
Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the
ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking
root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I
remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it
stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have
discovered that
2.4.10-pre5 works
2.4.10-pre6 hangs
2.4.9-ac7 works
2.4.9-ac8 hangs
How many others are seeing this behavior?
Does anyone recognize something that changed in these kernels that
could be responsible? The only thing I notice in common in the change
logs are references to gendisk. (I am not sure how that could be
responsible as the boot disk is a SCSI disk managed the ServRAID
driver.)
Does anyone have any idea how this could be further investigated?
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Maurice Volaski, [email protected]
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and
> Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the
> ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking
> root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
>
> It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I
> remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it
> stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
>
> I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have
> discovered that
>
> 2.4.10-pre5 works
> 2.4.10-pre6 hangs
>
> 2.4.9-ac7 works
> 2.4.9-ac8 hangs
2.4.9-ac17+ should work again, could you test it please?
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
>On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>> Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and
>> Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the
>> ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking
>> root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
>>
>> It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I
>> remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it
>> stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
>>
>> I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have
>> discovered that
>>
>> 2.4.10-pre5 works
>> 2.4.10-pre6 hangs
>>
>> 2.4.9-ac7 works
>> 2.4.9-ac8 hangs
>
>2.4.9-ac17+ should work again, could you test it please?
>
Yes, it works!
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Maurice Volaski, [email protected]
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University