no I have not gone to bugzilla as I wanted a second confirmation first.
The boot image for smp does not have the drivers included. I was about to build a new boot image and see if that solves the problem.
Single proc code boots and works just great.
Also I need to get used to the changes as I've jumped from RH 8 up (current box) to FC3 so attempting to understand all the changes.
Rebuilding a kernel is not a issue for me except for the time. Remember the 6.x days of doing it a lot for ipchains firewall patches, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Cary Hart Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:43 PM To: Fedora Users' List Subject: Re: FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!!
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 12:12 -0500, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
I've even run up2date and using the latest 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 it still panics when booting. Thanks to the lack of ext3 drivers being built in.
Maybe I'm missing something here but, examining the kernel source code (the configurations are in the spec file), both the single processor and SMP kernel builds contain the same ext3 support.
What makes you think that this is the problem?
If, in fact, there is something wrong in the configs which I cannot see, you could easily rebuild the kernel.
Have you filed a Bugzilla?
Not the greatest distro. If you are lazy, in a hurry and let it automatically configure the drive(s)for you, it of course defaults to ext3. Which then makes your build in FC3 under SMP USELESS..
Or does somebody have it working and know a trick to get around this. I can of course select the non SMP build and it boots fine but then I'm wasting the second processor which we need.
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Fred Skrotzki Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:49 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: FC3 ext3 and SMP kernel errors.
Hardware: HP Lp2000r dual 1.0 Ghz procs, 1 Gig ram, Single 36 gig drive.
I just built a clean install (for the third time to be sure) on the above hardware. (FC2 runs perfectly on identical hardware).
Can anybody confirm this?
I'm going to rebuild again using ext2 to get by this problem.
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:54, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
Also I need to get used to the changes as I've jumped from RH 8 up (current box) to FC3 so attempting to understand all the changes.
RH8 ==> FC3 that's not a jump, that's a quantum leap in some ways.
I've several machines running SMP, but I've to this point always made upgrades with every version. Also I'm trying to recall... when was ext3 introduced?
Can you do a fresh install on this or identical hardware? Review the install logs for something strange happening (mkinitrd), maybe you just need to rebuild the initrd image.
Terry Polzin wrote:
On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:54, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
Also I need to get used to the changes as I've jumped from RH 8 up (current box) to FC3 so attempting to understand all the changes.
RH8 ==> FC3 that's not a jump, that's a quantum leap in some ways.
I've several machines running SMP, but I've to this point always made upgrades with every version. Also I'm trying to recall... when was ext3 introduced?
Can you do a fresh install on this or identical hardware? Review the install logs for something strange happening (mkinitrd), maybe you just need to rebuild the initrd image.
I can confirm the same problem.
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0.
I've just installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and it boots fine, although obviously with only one processor.
R.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:00PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
I can confirm the same problem. kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0. I've just installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and it boots fine, although obviously with only one processor.
Is this in bugzilla?
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:00PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
I can confirm the same problem. kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0. I've just installed kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and it boots fine, although obviously with only one processor.
Is this in bugzilla?
It is now.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141658
R.
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:00PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
Terry Polzin wrote:
On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:54, Fred Skrotzki wrote:
I've several machines running SMP, but I've to this point always made upgrades with every version. Also I'm trying to recall... when was ext3 introduced?
ext3 was introduced in Red Hat Linux 7 I think. I've got a production 7.2 system here that's got ext3 mount points. My 6.2 system doesn't.
I can confirm the same problem.
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0.
That's not the same problem. Your issue is trying to boot off of a software raid volume and that's not the same as a plain old ext3 volume at all.
Remember that ext3 volumes will mount as ext2. You just won't have the journal. And yes, I have tested this.
Ed Wilts wrote:
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:48:00PM +0000, Robin Bowes wrote:
I can confirm the same problem.
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 (stock FC3) and kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 (latest update) won't boot on my SMP system with root on /dev/md0.
That's not the same problem. Your issue is trying to boot off of a software raid volume and that's not the same as a plain old ext3 volume at all.
Remember that ext3 volumes will mount as ext2. You just won't have the journal. And yes, I have tested this.
OK, let me re-phrase that.
I've got the same symptoms.
My smp kernels won't boot; my single processor kernel will.
I was running FC2 with the smp kernel booting off /dev/md0 fine.
FC3 with the single-processor kernel boots off /dev/md0 fine.
Any suggestions as to what could be the problem?
R.