On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Monday 23 August 2004 23:19, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:
Sorry to trouble you, but I have spent three days searching and trying everything I could think to try and get my HD's mounted. I was running SuSE 9.0 with out any problems. I upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 and now I have no swaps, and no mounted disks. The upgrade went well/or as expect but my HD did not so up. Before the upgrade they were just fine. Also booting off the CD shows all disks. fsck on the partitions shows no problems. I am out of ideas to try? Could you give me a few? The upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 did not have any problems. When I try to mount them I get already mounted or busy... xenau:~ # mount /dev/hdb1 /local mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /local busy To discover what uses /local or /local1, execute:
lsof | grep '/local1\?\>'
Nothing shows up... That is the problem there are some postfix entries but not related.
The 'defaults' indicates that those partitions should be mounted *automatically* during boot.
If they are not mounted, then you must have error messages during booting! They are stored in /var/log/boot.msg or /var/log/messages. Please find them and post them.
The one problem I see is the heads paramater is always 16 instead of 255. " ... <4>hdb: IC35L120AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive ... <4>hdd: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, ATA DISK driv ... <4>hdb: max request size: 128KiB <6>hdb: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) <4>hdb: cache flushes supported <6> hdb: hdb1 <4>hdd: max request size: 128KiB <6>hdd: 40031712 sectors (20496 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39714/16/63, UDMA(33) <4>hdd: cache flushes not supported <6> hdd: hdd1 hdd2 ... <4>reiserfs: enabling write barrier flush mode <6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. <6>md: autorun ... <6>md: ... autorun DONE. <6>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com <3>device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed <4> <4>device-mapper: error adding target to table <3>device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed <4> " I do see this in the logs for hda and hdb, but the BIOS shows .../255/63 for both, which is mounted... " <4>hda: max request size: 128KiB <6>hda: 241254720 sectors (123522 MB) w/1863KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) <4>hda: cache flushes supported <6> hda: hda1 hda2 ... " In the logs it shows. " Starting EVMSDosSegMgr: Warning, using an alternate geometry (Cylinders, Heads, Sectors) for drive hdb. The kernel reported drive geometry is: C= 65535 H= 16 S= 63 The partition records report a geometry of: C= 65535 H= 255 S= 63 Using the alternate geometry reported by the partition records. " But by the BIOS it is always 255. I do not see any failed or other messages. The only failed messages are as follows. " <4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. <5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed <5>Unmounting old root ... <6>md: ... autorun DONE. <6>device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com <3>device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed <4> <4>device-mapper: error adding target to table <3>device-mapper: : dm-linear: Device lookup failed <4> *** 5 of these **** ... <notice>run boot scripts (boot.swap boot.pnet boot.idedma) Activating remaining swap-devices in /etc/fstab... failedRegister IL Executablesdone <notice>exit status of (boot.swap boot.pnet boot.idedma) is (0 0 0) <notice>run boot scripts (boot.clock) ... "
swapon -s
And this does not show anything so the last message above is the swap file
failing. This at least gives me some more to look at. Why I am getting
16 from the Kernel instead of 255.
Thanks,
--
Boyd Gerber