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Well, I got it to boot. Now that it's up, I can see what the problem was/is. |
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There are no disk device files in /dev. |
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I created the appropriate nodes and things went much better. |
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The problem was that CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 was on |
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I just closed up the chassis and it will ship in the morning. |
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Thank you for your help! |
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Mike. |
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On Friday 15 October 2010 3:02:27 pm Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 15.10.2010 21:23, schrieb Mike Diehl: |
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> > On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> >> Am 15.10.2010 19:29, schrieb Mike Diehl: |
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> >>> Hi all. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I've never had this much trouble with a server before, but I've been |
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> >>> pulling my hair out. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> The install seemed to go well, but when I rebooted it from it's own |
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> >>> hard drive, it fails. fsck claims that it can't open /dev/sda3 or |
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> >>> that the superblock doesn't describe a valid ext2 filesystem. |
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> >> |
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> >> *All* of the drivers could be too much. There is a generic driver which |
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> >> can prevent the "right" driver from taking over. In that case you end up |
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> >> with a /dev/hda node and no DMA. Try to deactivate "Generic ATA support" |
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> >> = CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC and "generic/default IDE chipset support" = |
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> >> CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC. |
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> >> I think it is the second option that causes that problem. However, you |
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> >> won't need the first option, either. |
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> > |
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> > I tried this, first without success. I then ran through all combinations |
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> > of sda3, sdb3, hda3, hdb3 in /etc/fstab. This didn't work. |
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> > |
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> >> Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also |
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> >> support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in |
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> >> the running kernel and compiles them into the new kernel. It is very |
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> >> helpful when you already have a good but generic kernel like the one on |
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> >> your live CD. |
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> > |
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> > I tried this, next. At least now, I believe I have a viable kernel. But |
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> > it still didn't work. |
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> > |
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> >> If even that doesn't help, it might be possible that the device |
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> >> numbering has changed and your hard disk is detected as /dev/sdb or so. |
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> >> Try mounting it by UUID (google for it, please). |
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> > |
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> > I tried this. Only now, fsck.ext2 tells me that it can't resolve the |
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> > UUID. |
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> > |
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> > Here is the new fstab: |
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> > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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> > |
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> > UUID=ba7511dd-a5f9-48d8-8102-cf71c08a0c7b / ext2 noatime |
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> > 0 1 |
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> > |
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> > /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 |
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> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 |
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> > 0 |
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> > |
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> > At this point, I'm going to move the drive to a different port on the |
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> > SATA chain; shouldn't change anything, but I'm running out of ideas. |
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> > I'll also check the BIOS for anything stupid-obvious. |
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> > |
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> > So, I guess I'm still stuck! |
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> Hmm, sounds like a serious problem. I suggest you try to get into an |
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> early stage during boot and try to move forward from there. Try to add |
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> '1' to the parameters in order to get into single-user mode. You can |
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> also try 'init=/bin/bash'. |
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> There are lots of other options you can try. For a long time, 'noapic' |
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> (not 'noapci') was my first candidate for odd boot issues. Take a look |
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> at /usr/sr/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt for more options. |
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> Also, which kernel sources are you using and which live CD (with which |
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> kernel version)? Is there a specific reason why you use ext2 for root? |
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> What kind of system do you run, anyway? And, just by chance, you are not |
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> using an extremely large (>1TB) drive which might happen to have 4kB |
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> blocks instead of 512 B? |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Take care and have fun, |
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Mike Diehl. |