Re: [gentoo-amd64] dma?

[Gavin Seddon]

Many thanks Andreas.




On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:24 +0200, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:02, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am using Reiser on a couple of my partitions.  When booting it informs
> > me the 'dma is turned off, this is slowing down fs checking.  Also,
> > occasionall I am instructed to ctrl D for a reboot.  Is this normal for
> > reiser?  And, how do I turn dma on?  A similar situation occurred with
> > all ext3 filesystems then afte about 1 yr the root partition developed
> > significant errors and wouldn't boot.  So I put reiser on it.  What do
> > you think's up?  It appears to me to be a broken hdd?
> > Gavin.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Looks like the system was turned off without cleanly unmounting all
> partitions. This should trigger a filesystem check at next reboot. The
> message with Ctrl-D to reboot does also contain a oppertunity to login as
> root (just type roots password). This is due to the fact that fsck.reiserfs
> was unable to repair certan problems and needs to be run with optional
> parameters that you must manually specify; probably --rebuild-tree.
>
> A solution would be to boot up the system normaly and then enter runlevel 1 by
> using the command "init 1" as root. Next umount the partition that is having
> problems and do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition]" and see if that
> helps, otherwise do a "chkfs.reiserfs /dev/[your-partition] --rebuild-tree".
> This helped me after some bad thunderstorms that caused blackouts last summer
> and corrupted some of my partitions on my file server.
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas Karlsson
> Sweden
-- 
Dr Gavin Seddon
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
M13 9PL
UK




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