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jl_678
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 Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:32 am Post subject: Can anyone help with Gentoo on Ultra5 install problem? |
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I am doing a fresh install of Gentoo (Kernel 2.4.23) on an Ultra5 with dual 80 GB HDs. I am setting up the system in a RAID1 configuration. The installation has gone smoothly and now I am trying to boot off of the system at the end of the installation and am having major problems. (Booting off of the LiveCD works fine.) The boot starts smoothly. I see that the two RAID 1 sets start properly and then I get some IP related commands:
| Code: | Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
****Here is where everything goes to hell****
sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ide0(3,1)
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 |
Okay, now I understand that it looks like it cannot find reiserfs partition, but I am trying to figure out why this is the case. I believe that my fstab is correct, (see below) and I also definitely compiled reiserfs into the kernel NOT as a module. (again this is below. One thought, could there be something that is not compliled in the kernel and needs to be besides the obvious reiserfs stuff and the stuff listed in the install docs?) I have also included a print out of the partitions below. Just as an fyi, the two drives are installed as masters on their own IDE channels and have the exact same partition layout. (hda and hdc)
I have reached the end of my Gentoo knowledge at this point and am stuck. Does anyone have any suggestions about what I should do? I have this feeling that something small is wrong, but I just have no idea and am feeling very frustrated.
TIA for any help.
JL
fstab
| Code: | # NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/md0 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/md2 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hdc2 swap swap defaults,pri=1 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 |
Kernel Config
| Code: | CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y |
Partition Layout
| Code: | disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 38323 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0 15 30600 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda2 u 15 260 499800 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 0 38323 78178920 5 Whole disk
/dev/hda4 260 38323 77648520 fd Linux raid autodetect |
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Pcassimans
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:16 am Post subject: |
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i am not sure if it has something to do with it or if it is ok how it is configured, but in your partition table, if you see end block at 15, should the next block not start at 16 in place of 15 in your partition table?
It is like that on an X86 system, but am not sure on a sparc.
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jl_678
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think that this is it, but I could be wrong. My reasoning is that I can easily mount the filesystem when I boot off the LiveCD. All the files are intact and everything runs smoothly. I would assume that if my partitioning is wrong then I would have consistent errors when trying to mount the volume regardless of whether I boot off of the LiveCD or try to boot directly off of the HD.
These assumptions could certainly be wrong. Anyone else have any thoughts about this?
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Ferris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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I can't speak to the Raid issue, but otherwise the partition table looks
pretty normal: Compare
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ferris@lacewing:~/Packages/SNAKES/Snakes [249]% sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb (Sun disk label): 12 heads, 303 sectors, 9770 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3636 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0 9 16362 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb2 u 9 284 499950 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 0 9770 17761860 5 Whole disk
/dev/sdb4 284 3776 6348456 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb5 3776 9770 10897092 83 Linux native
Command (m for help): q
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jl_678
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:18 am Post subject: |
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I was thinking that silo.conf might help so here it is:
| Code: | partition = 1
#append = " md=0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1"
root = /dev/hda1
timeout = 10
default = Linux
image = /boot/kernel-2.4.24
label = Linux |
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Auka
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hm, I have never used software raid on sparc, just x86 (i.e. using lilo) but give instead of a try...
Hint: do not forget to unset CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK (debugging) at least as soon as you can boot.  Automounter is btw also not required for "normal" partitions... |
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