I am trying to install SuSE 9.2 on a machine with two brand new Maxtor 150GB hard drives. I've tried both as Linux RAID, and each drive by itself. The install is fine, but every time the machine boots, it slows down during 'Replaying journal' and 'Checking internal tree'. Really slow. Takes the machine 5 minutes to boot up and every time, not just initial boot. The install finishes and reboots slow, then I just do shutdown and restart, same thing. I've tried different motherboards and cables to make sure the ATA133 is working for these drives. I loaded Windows XP and all is fine, good boot time. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.2MHz (Northwood core, 512K cache) with 800MHz FSB, 512MB RAM.
Is there something I should know or be able to debug further this problem booting in SuSE? Robert, are you using Reiserfs? I have a similar situation on one of my machines that began after I did an online upgrade via yast. Watching the stuff scroll by, it looks as if it is doing a complete fsck of the reiser
On Sunday 20 March 2005 05:58 pm, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: partitions. I have no idea why it started that but sure will be watching this thread to see if someone has an answer. I have also noticed that if I do the Yast checkout of the system it finds -usually- a reiserfs partition that has been corrupted. Since it appears you are doing some experimental installs, why dont you try an install using ext3 or the JFS format and see if you have the same problem. I've had a couple of machines which kept getting corrupted reiserfs partitons until I changed to JFS and after a few weeks, no problems. Just a suggestion. Best of luck, Richard -- Old age ain't for Sissies!