Re: Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895 and QLogic ISP10x0 ?

["Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]" <harbaugh@ncifcrf.gov>]

Norbert Tretkowski <tretkowski@inittab.de> wrote:

> There are kernel-images for 2.6.8 in testing, please try these, this
> sounds like a known bug.
>
> Norbert

I tried your suggestion, doing an 'apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-1-generic'

The system did boot all the way up on the new kernel after hanging
for an extended period of time attempting to launch syslogd.

However, now I have a strange new problem.  The system refuses to
mount /var because it is an 'ext3' partition.  But the root partition
is an ext3 partition, and it *is* mounted.  The console log shows the
following relevant message:

   EXT2-fs warning (device sde5): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

but then goes on as normal with everything, even saying that /var is clean:

   INIT: version 2.86 booting
   Activating swap.
   Adding 1048544k swap on /dev/sde2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
   Checking root file system...
   fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
   /: clean, 12002/509952 files, 82544/1019904 blocks
   rtc: Digital UNIX epoch (1952) detected
   Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
   System time was Mon Aug 30 18:12:54 UTC 2004.
   Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
   System Clock set. System local time is now Mon Aug 30 18:12:56 UTC 2004.
   Calculating module dependencies... done.
   Loading modules...
       ide-cd
   Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
   ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
       ide-detect
   FATAL: Module ide_detect not found.
       sd_mod
   All modules loaded.
   Capability LSM initialized
   Checking all file systems...
   fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
   /boot: clean, 28/65536 files, 23802/131072 blocks
   /var: clean, 887/524288 files, 131887/1048576 blocks
   Setting kernel variables ...
   ... done.

The subsequent mount listing is

   fchelp:~# mount
   /dev/sde5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
   proc on /proc type proc (rw)
   sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
   devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
   tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
   /dev/sde4 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
   fchelp:~# df
   Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
   /dev/sde5              4015552    266116   3545456   7% /
   tmpfs                   515544         0    515544   0% /dev/shm
   /dev/sde4               122835     15565    100717  14% /boot

But no /var mount is allowed:

   fchelp:~# mount /var
   mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel
   fchelp:~# uname -a
   Linux fchelp 2.6.8-1-generic #1 Tue Aug 17 08:46:31 CEST 2004 alpha GNU/Linux
   fchelp:~# date
   Mon Aug 30 14:55:03 EDT 2004

How was the root partition 'forced' into ext2 mode?  Can I do the same
with /var, or must I redo everything as ext2?  Do I have another alternative
(XFS, JFS, etc.) that will work better for root or /var or both?

Thanks again,
Toni

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Toni Harbaugh-Blackford                   harbaugh@abcc.ncifcrf.gov
System Administrator
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC)
National Cancer Institute
Contractor - SAIC/Frederick