Drive was low level formatted and verified before and after 3 builds. It boots and works fine under single proc. I even build it on another drive just to be sure. BOX is a full blown server class system. hot swap drives, etc... HP LP2000r dual 1.0 Ghz P4 1 gig ram here is the drive config Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /boot ext3 /dev/sda2 14 1548 12329887+ 83 Linux / ext3 /dev/sda3 1549 1809 2096482+ 82 Linux swap swap /dev/sda4 1810 4427 21029085 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1810 2070 2096451 83 Linux /var/log ext3 fstab LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/var/log1 /var/log ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=SWAP-sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 Here is what is left on the screen when booting using SMP: ext3: unknown symbol journal_get_write_access ext3: unknown symbol journal_undo_access ext3: unknown symbol journal_create_access ext3: unknown symbol journal_destroy ext3: unknown symbol journal_clear_error ext3: unknown symbol journal_stop ext3: unknown symbol journal_init_inode ext3: unknown symbol journal_start ext3: unknown symbol log_wait_command ext3: unknown symbol journal_release_buffer ext3: unknown symbol journal_check_available_features ext3: unknown symbol journal_abort ext3: unknown symbol journal_restart insmod: error inserting '/lib/ext2.ko": -1 unknown symbol in module ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally creating root drive umount /sys failed: 16 Mounting root file system mount: error 19 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing...... -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Rahul Sundaram Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:33 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!! On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:30:37 -0500, Fred Skrotzki <fskrotzki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > clean install. Identical hardware. and yea I know it is a huge jump. I've got a long stack of ext3 errors on the screen that scroll off faster then you can blink. > since this is the default filesystem its very unlikely thats your problem is related to missing drivers. make sure your hard disk isnt failing -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list