Hi, I have a problem with a Dell poweredge 1800. My box has the Sata Raid controller from Dell and the linux support is on the recent kernels >2.6.10 and >2.4.27, I think ...at least, the sarge cd inst doesn't recognize the controller and the hds. I installed a Sarge and configured the raid system and put a 2.6.12 from testing (some months ago). More or less, all was working like a charm during this weeks. Howeber, I had big electrify cut and the server was poweroff suddenly. My problems began then. Although I did all the fsck tests and no problem, the system when reboots stop in some point of the initscripts, after mount all the partitions without any error. After many tests and no success and installed a installed a 2.6.16 from backports but nothing was solved. I'm really desperately because I really don't know how to solve this issue. The only way that I have to boot is to boot from a cd, comment the /usr partition on the fstab, reboot the box, then an error on the rcS scripts occurs, but continues. Log in to the box, mount the /usr partition, an do a rc 2, and then all is ok. I'm not a senior in the system administration but I understand that the boot procedure begins to execute all the scripts (in alphabetically order SXX) on the /etc/rcS.d/ directory and after, depending on the inittab mode, goes to the /etc/rcX.d/ directory and executes the rest of the scripts. Is this correct this explication? Otherwise, I would like to ask how I can know what is happens? I have modified almost all the boot scripts putting flags saying echo "I' doing this .." and my box is hanged in the bootmisc.sh script. There's a deadlock in this point, in the bootclean mountall but I don't understand what is happens. I don't know if is about the udev of the > 2.6.12 kernels and the mountvirtfs, or what. I really have NO idea. Please, could someone tell me at least how can I try to find the dammed problem? Thank's in advance, Leo Pd please, CC to me, I'm not in this list :-( -- -- Linux User 152692 PGP: 0xF944807E Catalonia
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