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Hello, I'm not an expert for reiserfs (I try to avoid using it ;-) However, I have some hints for you, see below for details. Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 13:41 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The Tuesday 2004-08-03 at 15:24 +0200, Uwe Debacher wrote:
You may even try the following pairs bb3001/am3001 ... Er... [crash] [...20 hours later] [...] Rebooted, crashed again. Rescue, autorestore, crash. Rescue, crash (not booted). Install, crash.
Even the DVD and CD (SuSE 9.1) refused to boot! [...] Went to sleep.
Awoke, memtest, nothing.
Hmm, otherwise this would have been my first question ;-)
Rebooted (init 1) , no problem. reiserfsck, problems detected, corrected, fix-fizable (and a few more yesterday). Then init 3, ok, copied the root partition to the new partition created yesterday, no problem. Now init 5, writing this, running ok, 3:32 hours so far.
What happened!? :-/
Maybe your harddisk starts to fail. Create a backup first und test your harddisk with "badblocks". Also have a look at /var/log/messages, if there are any interesting messages there (especially while running badblocks). AFAIK, ReiserFS can create "interesting effects" if there's a hardware failure.
Can a fault at the '/' partition render the rescue CD/DVD inoperable?
IMHO: no, it shouldn't do so. But it may do if it tries to mount the existing partitions.
This is the kernel log, at the time of the first crash - it is related to reiserfs - therefore I think we should all get as far of reiserfs as possible till this is fully solved and debugged:
Aug 3 16:56:56 nimrodel kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [...] Aug 3 16:56:56 nimrodel kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
This is a kernel oops. Not nice :-( Try to run ksymoops, this could make the output clearer.
{reboot, after manual reiserfsck from rescue dvd} Aug 3 17:44:46 nimrodel kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } [...] Aug 3 17:44:47 nimrodel kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Hmm, errors with hda and hdb. Are you sure your IDE-cable is ok?
{Third crash} [...] Aug 3 18:49:16 nimrodel kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Kernel oops again. See above. Gruß Christian Boltz -- Warning: Sleeping Sigmonster! Please do not disturb.