Strange Fedora Booting problem: can not mount 'LABEL=*' partitions

[Guolin Cheng]

Hi,

 I'm not using an initrd.img file to boot. The FC1 can see|mount other
"LABEL=" partitions listed in fstab except this one. On the system disk
I have an extended logical partition. The "LABEL=/usr", "LABEL=/alexa",
"LABEL=/0" and "LABEL=/var" and other 3 swap parititions are all on the
extended Logical partition, All other 3 "LABEL=*" partitions are
detected and mounted well, except "LABEL=/var" partitions. 

 The error message are always:

" ... fsck.ext3 for device LABEL=/var exited with signal 11. ..." 

 Then I'm in single user mode, while now I can run "mount /var" without
any problems. Too strange.

My system disk partitions table is:

-bash-2.05b# sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+    130     131-   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/hda2        131    9728    9598   77095935    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda5        131+    783     653-   5245191   83  Linux
/dev/hda6        784+   1045     262-   2104483+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda7       1046+   1307     262-   2104483+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8       1308+   1569     262-   2104483+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda9       1570+   2222     653-   5245191   83  Linux
/dev/hda10      2223+   2353     131-   1052226   83  Linux
/dev/hda11      2354+   9728    7375-  59239656   83  Linux

In my kernel config, I've enabled Ext3 support surely, :) and the
following 
Partitions type support:

#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
# CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS=y

...
 
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.


--Guolin Cheng


-----Original Message-----
From: William Hooper [mailto:whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 5:51 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Strange Fedora Booting problem: can not mount 'LABEL=*'
partitions


Guolin Cheng said:

>
>  FC1 stops on partitions "LABEL=/var" on two machines, stops on
partition
> "LABEL=/" on the 3rd machine. While the default|upgraded NTPL kernel
> (with SMP problem) boots without a glitch, my vanilla 2.4.25 kernel
plus
> libata patch 2.4.25-libata8 fails with the above symptoms described.

Are you using an initrd?  IIRC label support requires it.  Another
option
would be to just put the dev entries in your fstab instead of the label.

-- 
William Hooper


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