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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
