RE: [gentoo-server] SOLVED (3.3 TB reiserfs volume not mounting at boot, and is unusable afterwards)

GJ!  Saving your solution for future reference... :)

Rich 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Klett [mailto:jklett@×××××××××.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:36 PM
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] SOLVED (3.3 TB reiserfs volume not mounting at
boot, and is unusable afterwards)

	Rich's response got me to thinking - I had seen a reference back

when I was building a similar server. after some creative googling, I  
found it:

http://www.coraid.com/support/linux/contrib/chernow/gpt.html

	the key note is at the bottom of the page:

"Without this on, strange things happen. For instance, rebooting the  
machine caused the file system to no longer be mountable or the GPT  
table got corrupted."

	aha! exactly my problem! I rebooted the machine and watched the

console carefully, and noted this:

* System.map not found unable to check symbols

	hmmmm. after some more googling, I found this discussion:

http://tinyurl.com/o57hm

	so I found the solution to making this message go away to be to
copy  
System.map to /., which is mounted when the message pops up during  
the boot process, whereas /boot and /usr are not. then we edit the  
block at the end of /sbin/modules-update to be:

if [ -d "`depdir`" -a -f /proc/modules ]
then
         if [ -f /System.map ]; then
                 depmod -a -F /System.map ${KV}
         else
                 ewarn "System.map not found - unable to check symbols"
         fi
fi

	and viola, the boot process is happy once more.

	as an added bonus, this resolves the issue with the filesystem
being  
usable after a reboot, and mounting at boot time. woohoo!

	thanks to all that replied. it always helps to bounce ideas off

others to get the juices flowing.

cheers,

- Jared

[snip]

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