[rhn-users] rebuild kernel or get new hard drive?

[Hicheal Morton]

depending on your hardware, you can boot from a livecd and fsck troublesome
partitions.

On 8/28/07, Howard, Chris <HowardC at prpa.org> wrote:
>
>
> If you have the time and inclination, I'd run fsck on all of them,
> or at least all of the partitions on drive /dev/sda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:51 PM
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] rebuild kernel or get new hard drive?
>
> Thank you Chris and Mark.  Yes, these are scsi drives and when I did a
> df and then tried to umount /dev/sda5 so that I
> could do fsck to the drive, it tells me drive is busy.  It shouldn't be,
>
> I rebooted, everyone's off, I looked at mount,
> nobody's mounted, but it still won't let me umount.  I'm thinking about
> going over to the building where the machine
> is and booting from the dvd and then trying to umount.  This worked on
> another system a while back.  Any more
> suggestions/advice is very very much appreciated.
> Paula
>
> Howard, Chris wrote:
>
> >I don't think a kernel rebuild is what you need.
> >
> >Maybe a real guru will jump in and decode all of this,
> >but "Medium Error" and "scsi0" are I/O things.
> >
> >Would dev 08:05 be the major and minor number of the device
> >file?  On my system that is /dev/sda5, a scsi disk partition.
> >"ERROR on channel 0" ... maybe the SCSI controller card?
> >
> >Do you see /dev/sda5 in the list when you do a 'df' ?
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> >On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:26 PM
> >To: Red Hat Network Users List
> >Subject: [rhn-users] rebuild kernel or get new hard drive?
> >
> >Hi everyone,
> >One of our RHE 3 machines went down this morning.  This machine runs
> one
> >
> >of our very needed instruments here on campus.  Can someone tell me if
> I
> >can
> >rebuild the kernel, do an fsck or go out and buy a new harddrive?
> >
> >Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: Current sd08:05: sense key Medium
> Error
> >Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered
>
> >read error - auto reallocate failed
> >Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:05, sector 129952
> >Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun
> 0,
> >
> >CDB: Read (10) 00 01 63 f4 83 00 00 08 00
> >
> >I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, but if needed, I will find out.
> >Many thanks for your advice/suggestions/opinions.
> >Paula
> >
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