Re: fsck failure at boot

[Jason Dixon <jason dixongroup net>]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Tom Sightler wrote:

> The firmware looks pretty old in your Qlogic adapter, that might be a
> possibility, but I doubt it.

As do I, since the LUN behaves normally outside of this issue.

> We have quite a few RHEL4 systems using Qlogic 2340 adapters to  
> talk to
> Xserve RAID systems and haven't seen anything like this at all  
> although
> I'll admit that we use the with LVM, not simple partitions.
>
> I just reread your first message and it actually looks like the system
> is getting to the "fsck" before udev has a chance to actually make the
> device node, did you rebuild your initrd after adding the Qlogic  
> device?
> If the device is not getting loaded during the initrd process, but
> rather during the "Initializing Hardware..." phase then I could see  
> how
> that's possible.

I would normally only think this is necessary when dealing with the  
root filesystem, but I see your point.  I might try that on Monday.

> Another possible workaround would be to simply tell the system not to
> attempt to fsck that drive by changing your fstab to:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /san ext3     defaults     1 0

This is what I'll leave it as until I can find the real cause.

Thanks,

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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