Hi,
First some system details:
Epox EP-D3VA motherboard dual 1Ghz PIII processors 1.5GB RAM 2 x Promise SATA150 TX4 controllers 6 x Maxtor Maxline II 250GB SATA HDDs (3 per controller)
The drives are all partitioned identically with two partitions: 1.5GB + 248.5GB. The partitions are configured in raid arrays as follows:
/dev/md0: /dev/sd[ad]1 / (root filesystem) /dev/md1: /dev/sd[be]1 swap /dev/md2: /dev/sd[cf]1 swap /dev/md5: /dev/sd[abcdef]2 lvm2 volume
/home, /usr, and /var are mounted as lvm2 logical volumnes on the /dev/md5 array.
I was running FC2. I then decided to upgrade to FC3.
I booted from the DVD (the media check completed OK) and went through the system upgrade.
All seemed to go well and I rebooted.
However, the boot process halted with the following message:
Loading ext3.ko module md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Creating root device Mounting root filesystem EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock mount: error 22 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
This is with the default 2.6.9-1.667smp kernel.
I booted into rescue mode and chrooted into the upgraded system - all seems fine, i.e. all the filesystems are OK.
I then upgraded all the packages using "yum upgrade" within the chroot environment. This installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp.
I rebooted and got the same error as above. I also tried "downgrading" to a 2.6.8 kernel but got the same error.
Am I hitting the known bug [1] with SATA drives in the 2.6.9 kernel ? Or is this some other problem?
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140367
Can anyone shed any light on this problem?
Thanks,
R. -- http://robinbowes.com
