kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 still won't boot Promise Raid 0 LVM Set

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Fri Jul 7 17:11:56 UTC 2006


Zoltan Boszormenyi írta:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Gray írta:
>> Under kernel-2.6.16-1.2133 my system boots a raid 0 volume on a Promise
>> PDC 20376 that looks like:-
>>
>> [root at www ~]# dmraid -s
>> *** Active Set
>> name   : pdc_fiagfhab
>> size   : 625163264
>> stride : 128
>> type   : stripe
>> status : ok
>> subsets: 0
>> devs   : 2
>> spares : 0
>>
>> All FC5 kernel-2.6.17's including 2145  won't boot on my system. The
>> boot volume is a raid
>> 0 array on a Promise PDC20376 (FastTrak) :-
>>
>> #Loading jbd.ko module
>> #Loading ext3.ko module
>> #Locading dm-mod.ko module
>> #device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised:
>> dm-devel at redhat.com
>> #Loading dm-mirror.ko module
>> #Loading dm-zero.ko module
>> #Loading dm-snapshot.ko module  #Making device-mapper control mode
>> Kernel 2.6.17-2145_FC5 Then hangs !!
>>
>> I am presuming kernel-2.6.17 kernels doesn't boot because it is not
>> recognising my LVM volume setup with 2.6.16 kernel
>> using /dev/mapper/pdc_fiagfhabp2 on the Promise PDC20376. Maybe it has
>> changed the device mapper name for this device? :-
>>   
>
> I don't know, I may have the same problem.
> I upgraded to RawHide from my FC5/x86-64
> about the same time as kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5
> came out so I don't know which change caused it.

I  think I wasn't clear. I have tried both the FC5 kernel
and the Rawhide kernel.

> Problem is: I have a secondary SATA harddisk
> hanging from the onboard Promise controller.
> Not it doesn't mount under /home1. I straced
> mount and the mount syscall returns EBUSY.
> sata_promise has refcount=1 according to lsmod.
> There is no suspicious message in the logs.
> The primary PATA hdd still works, it's attached
> to the VIA controller. MSI K8T Neo motherboard.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
>




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