On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Jameson <imntreal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Martín Cigorraga <msx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Jameson <imntreal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I hope someone can help me. I have a server with two SSDs that >>> contain a mirrored btrfs volume holding /, and multiple HDDs that are >>> in a btrfs RAID10 array. I updated to linux 3.7.3 in testing, and it >>> failed to boot. I booted from a USB drive, and reinstalled 3.6.?, and >>> I still get failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I don't see >>> anything in dmesg that makes a difference. The only thing that >>> changed was the kernels, back and forth. Does anyone have an idea, or >>> am I going to have to re-install? Thanks. >>> >> >> Hi Jameson, a blind shot here since I'm not familiar yet with SSD setups: >> did you tried running a fsck? In the past I had a similar situation with >> conventional hard disks and the problem was some corrupted data in /boot. >> >> Hope you have your beast up soon! > > Yes. I had actually forgotten that I had a separate ext4 boot > partition. I've ran fsck on it as well as btrfsck on my mirrored > root, and my raid10 array. All return fine. During boot, between > some of the xfermode errors, I can see the message where it is looking > for btrfs file systems, and then a repair console which says that the > root filesystem can't be found which doesn't respond for some reason. > I'll try to find another keyboard to see if it will make a difference. > I did another install of of the old 3.6 kernel, and noticed that it > threw an error about not being able to find the root filesystem at > that point also. Any further diagnostic advice will be appreciated. Also, it turns out changing USB keyboards makes no difference. I don't think I have a PS/2 keyboard, anymore. I've currently copied all of my data from my SSD array to a HDD, and plan on trying to get it to boot. I've successfully ran mkinitcpio and grub-mkconfig from a chroot on the HDD which did not return the error about not finding the root filesystem, so I'm hopeful it will at least get me back up and running. I forgot to grub-install, though, so I'll have to wait until I get home to test it. Thanks, =-Jameson Thanks, =-Jameson
