Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | 09 Jul 2003 09:36:04 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 08:01, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > On 06 Jul 2003 14:13:44 -0400 > Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > Is reiserfs on your root drive? If not can you please boot into single > > user mode, enable sysrq, try the mount again and get the decoded output > > from sysrq-p and sysrq-t if it hangs. > > > > -chris > > Hello Chris, > > I tried to produce some useful output but failed. Additionals I found: > > - pre3-ac1 has the same problem > - the box _hangs_ in fact, no sysrq is working. > (you need hw-reset to revive the box) > - I can see no disk activity on the 3ware RAID in question > - It always shows up, completely reproducable > - It shows during boot and during single- or multiuser (mount from console)
Step one is to figure out if the problem is reiserfs or 3ware. Instead of mounting the filesystem, run debugreiserfs -d /dev/xxxx > /dev/null and see if you still hang.
This will read the FS metadata and should generate enough io to trigger the hang if it is a 3ware problem.
(I'm on vacation for a few days, so Oleg is cc'd)
-chris
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