On 08/17/2010 10:39 AM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote:
So all that you see after the grub prompt is this (including the dots)?
root(1,5) bzimage.....
What if you put 'debug' there, so that the line reads:
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro debug
What it says in total is: Booting 'Arch Linux on Archangel' root (hd1,5) Filesystem Type ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 ro debug [Linux-BzImage, setup=0x3200, size=0x1ff440] (then it sits and reboots) This must have something to do with how 2.6.34.3 handles dmraid, because after a failed boot, the bios reports the second array as "Unhealthy". (It is fine). Simply powering off and back on re-syncs the array and it boots into LTS just fine. Adding debug makes no difference. What does this look like to you? Broken dmraid for nv8200 chipset in 2.6.34.3? I know this is *not* a generic dmraid, nvraid or 2.6.34.3 issue, because to trouble-shoot I updated my *regular* server (Tyan Computer Tomcat K8E (S2865)) to 2.6.34.3 and it uses nv_sata and dmraid as well. Updated without an issue. The working server has the following dmraid config and lspci info: [12:57 nirvana:/home/david] # dmraid -r /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_ddddhhfh", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_ddddhhfh", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 [12:57 nirvana:/home/david] # dmraid -s *** Active Set name : nvidia_ddddhhfh size : 1465149056 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 lspci info: 00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Tyan Computer Tomcat K8E (S2865) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4] I/O ports at 0970 [size=8] I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4] I/O ports at d400 [size=16] Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: sata_nv Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_acpi, sata_nv, ide-pci-generic 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Tyan Computer Tomcat K8E (S2865) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22 I/O ports at 09e0 [size=8] I/O ports at 0be0 [size=4] I/O ports at 0960 [size=8] I/O ports at 0b60 [size=4] I/O ports at c000 [size=16] Memory at febfb000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: sata_nv Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_acpi, sata_nv, ide-pci-generic On the test server where 2.6.34.3 will *not* boot you have (running LTS): [13:04 archangel:/home/david] # dmraid -r /dev/sda: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdc: nvidia, "nvidia_fdaacfde", mirror, ok, 976773166 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdd: nvidia, "nvidia_baaccaja", mirror, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0 [13:04 archangel:/home/david] # dmraid -s *** Active Set name : nvidia_fdaacfde size : 976773120 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 *** Active Set name : nvidia_baaccaja size : 1465149056 stride : 128 type : mirror status : ok subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 lspci info: 00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (RAID mode) (rev a2) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 7374 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 I/O ports at b080 [size=8] I/O ports at b000 [size=4] I/O ports at ac00 [size=8] I/O ports at a880 [size=4] I/O ports at a800 [size=16] Memory at f9e76000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA v1.0 Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+ Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci The big difference I see is that my main server 'nirvana' uses: Kernel driver in use: sata_nv Kernel modules: ata_generic, pata_acpi, sata_nv, ide-pci-generic which is working just fine with 2.6.34.3 while the test box 'archangel' uses: Kernel driver in use: ahci Kernel modules: ahci so it looks like the problem is in the ahci module and dmraid. Now how to fix? I have always used this box with mkinitcpio.conf configured with: MODULES="dm_mod dm_mirror sata_nv" I'll go see if I can rebuild with the ahci module loaded in the initramfs and see if that helps. But regardless, there is a bug somewhere. LTS boots fine in this config and 2.6.34.3 doesn't?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com