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Hello Everyone, |
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I feel like the answer here should be obvious, but either my google skills |
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have deteriorated badly, I'm missing the obvious, or I've just run into a |
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strange problem (which I doubt). |
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I have a Gentoo install with the following filesystem layout (from fstab): |
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/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2 |
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/dev/sda6 / jfs noatime 1 1 |
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/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 |
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/dev/sda5 /var jfs noatime 0 2 |
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/dev/sda7 /home jfs noatime 0 2 |
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Things work fine under normal circumstances, however if the machine is |
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powered off uncleanly (power button, power failure, etc) it refuses to boot. |
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The problem seems to stem from the fact that the root partition does not get |
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checked prior to mounting. I have the following grub stanza which boots the |
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system. It includes the "ro" option which is supposed to tell the kernel to |
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mount the root partition read-only at first to perform a fsck. |
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title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6 |
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root (hd0,1) |
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kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc |
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ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda6 udev hda=ide-scsi hde=ide-scsi ro |
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initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 |
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When booting this it basicly starts udev, then tries to mount filesystems |
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and says /dev/sda6 is not a valid partition and drops me into busybox. |
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The way I'm able to recover this is to boot to the live CD, |
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fsck.jfs/dev/sda6 and then reboot and the remaining filesystems fsck |
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fine and the |
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system boots. However, one thing I notice is that once / is unmounted |
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unexpectedly, it cannot be mounted prior to an fsck (get errors from mount). |
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This seems like a bit of a chicken & egg situation. |
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I can't believe this is a unique problem I've stumbled upon - does anyone |
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have either an obvious answer to this question or some examples of a working |
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gentoo install using jfs as the root partition (please, no responses of |
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"yeah, works fine for me" if you can resist). |
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I'll happily provide more info as desired - but thought I'd start here. |
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Aaron |
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