RE: Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895 and QLogic IS P10x0 ?
Same exact problem on my DS20L machines, I had to drop back
to 2.6.5-1-smp (obsolete but stable).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]
> [mailto:harbaugh@ncifcrf.gov]
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: tretkowski@inittab.de
> Cc: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden; harbaugh@ncifcrf.gov;
> debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895
> and QLogic ISP10x0 ?
>
>
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Toni Harbaugh-Blackford harbaugh@abcc.ncifcrf.gov
> System Administrator
> Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC)
> National Cancer Institute
> Contractor - SAIC/Frederick
>
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