Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[GarUlbricht7@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

"Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote regarding "why my 8.1 box keeps hanging":

>It is 8.1? The kernel on 8.1 is faulty, if you have at least one reiserfs
>partition. You should enable "barrier=none" option in fstab for those
>partitions, or use the patched kernel they provided.
>
>The symptom was a complete absolute sudden crash: every ting stopped,
>nothing in the logs, no network access, keyboard locked, num lock and cap
>lock led blinking --> ie, kernel crash signaling.
>
>Often the HD led would remain on.
>
>One more possibility apart from the other things you were told already :-)
>
>-- 
>Cheers,
>       Carlos Robinson

Carlos and you other gurus:

I was aware of the 8.1 kernel problem, and the first thing I did when
I installed 8.1 was upgrade my kernel.
However I did not know of "barrier=none" option in fstab.

I now see it is is hinted at in SuSE's support knowledge base: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_update_kernel.html
but not really explained how to do it.

I looked at "man fstab"  and read Carlos'December post:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Dec/0658.html
I still have no clue.

Could someone please show how my fstab table would look if
I put in a "barrier=none"  option in it.

Thanks Gar

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