experimental 2.6.19 kernel preview.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Jan 7 18:35:17 UTC 2007
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:49:32AM -0500, Saikat Guha wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 23:06 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > I've been working on a 2.6.19 update for FC6 over the last
> > few weeks, and it's starting to feel 'almost ready'.
> > Before I push this out to updates-testing though, I'd rather
> > have a few people 'kick the tyres' to make sure there's
> > nothing really silly wrong with these.
>
> kernel-2.6.19-1.2905.fc7.x86_64 on booting always drops me into fsck for
> a non-root USB disk [0] that is formatted as an ext3 volume and mounted
> from fstab as ext3. Incidentally, I just noticed that the partition type
> as reported by fdisk is still W95FAT(LBA). The fsck error is that it
> cannot find the superblock. Manually giving the alternate block
> locations doesn't help. dmesg output is lost since the boot process
> doesn't complete and I am afraid of forcing it through incase it results
> in any FS corruption on the USB disk (which works on other kernels).
>
> The same setup works flawlessly on 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.x86_64, finds the
> superblocks and mounts the disk at boot time without reporting any
> errors.
>
> Do let me know if there are any relatively safe things I can do with
> 2.6.19 that'll help diagnose the problem better.
>
> [0] Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1058:0900 Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Hmm, odd. Pete, any ideas?
wait, this is an fc7 kernel (which is really 2.6.20rc3).
This should have been in another thread.
Dave
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