From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OdLLA-0001R0-Lz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:55:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 674ABE0901; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:54:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.109]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E67E0993 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:54:29 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgoHAGIGTUx8qXWo/2dsb2JhbACTGoxHcb59hTYEhAaHKg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,261,1278259200"; d="scan'208";a="137229227" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.117.168]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 26 Jul 2010 18:54:23 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 859261C195BA for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:23 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id InziDKuit+WO for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:20 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.2] (rattus [192.168.44.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD1A1C195B9 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:20 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1280106310.13934.7.camel@troll> References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <201007250949.17739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4C4BF359.4020404@gmail.com> <201007252208.20365.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1280106310.13934.7.camel@troll> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1280141659.8738.15.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 405d3ddd-819e-4436-b5c3-8b3afecda02b X-Archives-Hash: 39e8904f88417baa998f330f460e31bf On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 09:05 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 22:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 25 July 2010 10:18:33 Dale wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > When done, reboot as normal and see if the machine boots up properly. > > > > > > And I would stand guard to make sure housekeeping doesn't come around. > > > ;-) Cutting power during all this wold not be good. > > > > Here in Africa we use pythons for that. > > > > Real genuine live 10 foot snakes. In a terrarium of course. > > > > Trust me, it takes about 30 seconds after the first housekeeping person sees > > it until none of them goes anywhere near your stuff. > > > > :-) > > > I like the idea of pythons, as they swallow the prey whole its much less > messy than the redback spiders suggested for use here in West Oz ... > someone would have to clean up the bodies in the morning. > > Must be a coincidence, didnt update the MBR after installing grub and > failed to boot this morning - though the signs are more like disk > failure - even the live CD isnt helping :( > > Another job for tonight when I get home. > > BillK > Fixed it - was grub after all - it renumbered my drives (0 and 1 swapped :( Complicated because this was one of the early sata boards with a fake raid chip to handle the sata while the old IDE drives were on the normal bus. Further complicated by the bios and raidchip changing drive assignments depending on which drive/cd/floppy you booted from (i.e., what grub sees as the drive numbers changes when the real OS is booted). I forgot what hoops I had to jump through to get this going originally. Might be time for a new setup - amd athlon 2500+ are not so cool these days :) BillK