Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 05:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 05:14:45 -0400 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:59354 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 05:14:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 05:18:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro To: Leopold Gouverneur cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.3[01] does not boot for me In-Reply-To: <20020811081929.GA693@gouv> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1094 Lines: 30 On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Leopold Gouverneur wrote: > 2.5.31 hangs during boot after: > > hde 60036480 sectors w/1916 KiB cache CHS=59560/16/63, UDMA(44) > hde hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < > > hde is a IBM-DTLA-307030 on a HPT366 (Abit BP6) 2.5.29 boot OK > Sorry if it is a known problem! Hrrmm... That definitely sounds like partition-parser getting screwed in the middle of IO - it _does_ read the first sector and apparently hangs in attempt to read another one. Very interesting, since AFAICS all changes that could have affected that place happened between .28 and .29. Deadlocks in surrounding code are very unlikely, since it simply doesn't care about block number and would just as happily hang while reading the first sector. Which it hadn't. Could you give the output of fdisk -lu /dev/hde? (after booting a working kernel, obviously ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/