You are welcome. If there are still some errors they could be due to other things, for example I have seen udev do this. Also if you mount anything by its volume label that will also cause a scan. In other words look in your fstab for entries like LABEL=/ and change them to /dev/sda or whatever. Then recreate the initial ramdisk with mkinitrd. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- >Subject : RE: [RE]Initrd boot phase errors reading bogus partition on ATA raiddrive >Date : Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:42:55 -0800 >From : "listbox" <listbox@hymerfania.com> >To : "'ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions'" <ataraid-list@redhat.com> > >Thank you so much! >It took me half a day to go from uber-newbie to being able to run the new >image ( I've never done the patch -> rpmbuild thing ). >Strangely enough though, this patch only dramatically REDUCED the number of >"Buffer I/O error on device hde1, logical block BLA-BLA-BLA" errors, it did >not eliminate them. >So,now I'm more than tempted to go into nash and turn off all attempts to >access hde, sil60, or whatever I have to in order to get it to boot quickly >and quietly. After all, on this machine, I know exactly where the root >filesystem is. > >Any advice? > >Charlweed >________________________________ > >From: James Olson [mailto:big_spender12@lycos.com] >Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:39 PM >To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions >Subject: [RE]Initrd boot phase errors reading bogus partition on ATA >raiddrive > > >I had a similar problem some months ago. It was caused by the redhat nash >program's mount command in the initrd probing drives when it shouldn't (like >when you mount the /proc filesystem). I wrote a patch to the nash source >code to fix it on my system. > ># diff -Naur block.c.orig block.c >--- block.c.orig 2006-03-08 11:46:59.000000000 -0800 >+++ block.c 2006-03-30 02:49:19.000000000 -0800 >@@ -337,6 +337,23 @@ >return NULL; >} > >+static char * >+block_populate_cache() >+{ >+ bdev_iter biter; >+ bdev dev = NULL; >+ blkid_dev bdev = NULL; >+ >+ biter = block_sysfs_iterate_begin("/sys/block"); >+ while(block_sysfs_next(biter, &dev) >= 0) { >+ >+ bdev = blkid_get_dev(cache, dev->dev_path, BLKID_DEV_FIND); >+ } >+ block_sysfs_iterate_end(&biter); >+ >+ return NULL; >+} >+ >char * >block_find_fs_by_label(const char *label) >{ >@@ -356,7 +373,7 @@ > >if (!access("/sys/block", F_OK)) { >/* populate the whole cache */ >- block_find_fs_by_keyvalue("unlikely","unlikely"); >+ block_populate_cache(); > >/* now look our device up */ >bdev = blkid_get_dev(cache, name, BLKID_DEV_NORMAL); > > >---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- >>Subject : Initrd boot phase errors reading bogus partition on ATA raid >drive >>Date : Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:19:01 -0700 >>From : "charlweed" >>To : >> >>Hi gurus! >> >>Booting my Fedora 5 (2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) system takes an extra couple of >>minutes because of disk errors. The system is trying to "do something" with > >>a partition on a drive that is part of a raid set, and failing. These >errors >>occur during the initrd boot phase. After the system boot, the system is >>apparently ok. >> >>When I boot Linux, I get several screens worth of the following error >> >> Buffer I/O error on device hde1, logical block 625153152 >> >> >> >>hde is part of a 2 disk striped raid set. I can stop the errors if I add >>"hde=noprobe hdf=noprobe" as a kernel boot parameter, but then I cannot use > >>dmraid to access my raid partition, because /dev/hde & /dev/hde don't >exist. >>I tried adding boot parameter "hde=19457,255,63" but the device remains >>invisible. >> >> >> >>My naive guess is that I can solve my problem by either >> >>1) Getting dmraid to see my drives after a boot that uses "noprobe" >> >>2) Stopping whatever program is trying to access hde1 during the initrd >>boot. >> >>All my attempts at 1) have failed, and I have no idea how to do 2). >> >> >> >>My System has >> >> An Abit AN7 nforce chipset motherboard with >> >> 2 ATA onboard channels >> >> onboard Si3112 SATA Raid ( I use SATA, but not the SATA raid) >> >> A SiI0680 (CMD 680) pci ATA card >> >> >> >>The drive layout is >> >> hda onboard ata [hda1=/boot ,ext3 : hda2=unmounted, ntfs] >> >> hdc onboard ata [ hdc1= /, ext3 : hdc2=swap : hdc3=/var, ext3] >> >>** hde SiI0680 striped raid set 1 >> >> hdf SiI0680 [ hdf1=unmounted, ntfs ] >> >>** hdg SiI0680 striped raid set 1 >> >> sda onboard SATA [sda1=unmounted, ntfs] >> >>** dm-0 raid 1[dm-0p1=unmounted, ntfs] >> >>Thanks! >> >>Charlweed >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Ataraid-list mailing list >Ataraid-list@redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > >