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
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!
I have the same? problem on my system! Previously I had SuSE 9.0 and later 9.1 with an old Celeron 733, 256MB memory with an ASUS mainboard and a Crappy Promise ATA133 PCI (no raid) controller (avoid like plague) for the newer larger (136GB+) hard drives. In total I had 6 hard drives and the boot time was as fast as anything. Due to problems with the Promise PCI card and that the system was reallt slow (old) I decided to upgrade my hardware I bought an MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R (Don't ask me why I change from ASUS to MSI? I have always been pleased with ASUS!), AMD64 3000+, 1GB Memory, Nvidia 5700 etc Today I have 4 hard drives SATA (Boot): a 120GB ATA133 HDD with an ATA2SATA converter (works like a charm). I had the same problem with the system before bying this) ATA133: 3x200GB HDD (2x ATA133, and 1 pcs of ATA100/DVD Burner) All HDDs are connected to the connectors controlled by the via chips , I'm not using the connectors controlled by the Promise Chip! I installed this system with SUSE 9.2, I have both tried 32 and 64 bit versions and at first it took 25-30 minutes to boot the system. I thought this was due to that I had created LVM1 volumes with SuSE 9.0. I removed LVM from all 200GB HDDs, by misstake I kept Reiserfs, my intention was to replace it by ext3 since reiserfs seem to be a bitch when you have problems. I'm still partly using LVM on the boot drive. This reduced my boot time from 25-30 minutes down to approx 15 minutes and this is what I have to endure now. I can't find any errormessage in the logfiles and as Robert Fitxpatrick says, it is just slow and It has to do with HDDs... During boot everything looks normal until the eth/wlan cards has been discovered, after that the system waits until it displays 'Replaying journal' or 'Checking internal tree' (I don't remember with message comes first) for two of the 200GB HDDs. At this stage the boot has taken approx 5 minutes. When the system continues and it is just slow on everything concering the HDDs during boot. When the system is up and running it is lightning fast and coping files between the hdds can reach 30-40MB /s sec. I don't see any problem here. I don't know if this is a valid test but I booted the SimplyMephis 3.3 Live CD and after boot I clicked on each of the HDD icons It had created on the desktop (all HDDs and all LVM volumes) and I mounted all HDD/LVM volumes fast and without a problem. Booting Mephis and mounting the volumes to the time expected from a live CD, Much faster than it takes with the installed SuSE 9.2. If I could I would try to change one of the HDDs to ext3 but all HDDs are filled to the limit so I can't temporary move the data somewhere. Right now I have pre-ordered SuSE 9.3 and I hopes that it will solve this problem and the other I have with this setup. I would be very happy for suggestions! Best Regards Patrik Richard wrote:
On Sunday 20 March 2005 05:58 pm, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
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 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
On Monday 21 March 2005 01:58, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
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
I have the same problem on an old P3 with 20Gb disk and have not solved it. I will be very interested if anybody has a solution. This machine previously ran 9.1 without this problem. PaulH -- Paul Hewlett (Linux #359543) Email:`echo az.oc.evitcaten@ttelweh | rev` Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 72 719 2725 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --
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