Mount failures under 2.2.3

Dan Christian (robodan@netscape.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:26:12 -0800

When it try to boot a 2.2.2-ac3, 2.2.3, or 2.2.3-ac1 kernel I get
problems or total failures to mount file systems. I don't have these
problems with 2.2.2 or 2.2.2-ac1.

The system is a Dell PowerEdge 6300, quad Xeon, 2Gb. It has 3 onboard
AIC7xxx controllers (2 U2W, and 1 narrow) and a Megaraid 428. I had the
same problem when using an offboard 2940UW instead of the onboard ones.
There is 1 disk on each U2W, CD and DAT on the narrow, and 6 disk array
on the Megaraid (3 logical units). All filesystems are Ext2 (various
block sizes).

When trying to boot the rawhide 2.2.3-2smp, it can't find the boot
partition and panics. I don't have as much detail here because serial
console wasn't on.

When trying to boot a 2.2.3-ac1 or a 2.2.2-ac3, the Megaraid doesn't
find the second two devices (of 3). Most of the other devices mount as
dirty (they shouldn't be). These kernels don't have the video console
enabled (the rawhide kernel does).

I have mount-2.8a-2, but it seems like the failures are before that.

Everything works fine under 2.2.2-ac1.

Ideas?

-Dan Christian

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