From: "Richard B. Pyne" <rpyne@kinfolk.org>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system startup hangs
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:16:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE0E2CC.6090107@kinfolk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208122154.GA12445@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk>
On 12/8/2011 5:21 AM, Robin Hill wrote:
> On Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 03:38:05PM -0700, Richard B. Pyne wrote:
>> EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 9:0.
>> freeing unused kernel memory: 472k freed
>>
>> at which point it just hangs. No more disk access, no more messages.
>>
>> I currently have md0 for / md1 for /home md2 for /usr md3 for /var and
>> md4 on which I plan on running lvm to allocate to other system needs.
>>
>> Any advice, insights and/or direction will be greatly appreciated.
>>
> I've been bitten by this one myself recently. I suspect you've failed to
> copy over the required underlying /dev entries. You need at least
> /dev/console and /dev/null on the rootfs - at this stage the tmpfs
> hasn't been mounted on /dev and udev hasn't created all the dev nodes.
>
> Cheers,
> Robin
That was the problem, Thank you very much!
Now lilo is telling me that I must have my boot on a RAID1 device even
though I have it on a non-raid drive and partition.
--Richard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-08 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-07 22:38 system startup hangs Richard B. Pyne
2011-12-07 23:00 ` NeilBrown
2011-12-07 23:24 ` Richard B. Pyne
2011-12-07 23:01 ` Mathias Burén
2011-12-07 23:19 ` Richard B. Pyne
2011-12-08 12:21 ` Robin Hill
2011-12-08 16:16 ` Richard B. Pyne [this message]
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