From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:42:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:42:29 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:8860 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 04:42:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:48:47 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Chris Friesen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE BUG REPORT: 2.5.45 killed my / partition -- partially recovered Message-ID: <20021104094847.GH13587@suse.de> References: <3DC5C3A9.3060608@nortelnetworks.com> <3DC5E744.9020508@nortelnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC5E744.9020508@nortelnetworks.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 03 2002, Chris Friesen wrote: > Well, it turns out that the reason I couldn't boot was a conflict > between the boot time checks and devfs (with devfs on /dev/hdb9 didn't > exist...). If I turned off devfs loading at boot everything went okay. > > However, there *were* those problems that fsck.ext3 found and I'm still > kind of suspicious about them. Be sure not to tell us what hard drive you have, if you used dma or not, etc. These kinds of clues might help us understand what the problem is. Usually, a boot log at the least is needed. -- Jens Axboe