Hi, I cannot boot -mm kernel on my system since 2.6.12-rc5-mm1. The system is a partition on ES7000 and has a dual boot for SuSE/RH, which is set up using two LVM volumes. le020-p2:~ # pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 stash lvm2 a- 16.50G 3.50G /dev/sdb2 rhel4stash lvm2 a- 16.50G 16.00M The other partition on that system set up for dual boot also, but uses 2 disks directly without LVM, and boots just fine. Last thing I see on the console during failed boot: ... device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com ReiserFS: dm-0: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal I put little debug in and it turned out that the boot hangs while waiting on a buffer in fs/reiserfs/super.c read_bitmaps() routine, on second iteration of the following loop: for (i = 0; i < SB_BMAP_NR(s); i++) { wait_on_buffer(SB_AP_BITMAP (s)[i].bh); <========waiting here indefinitely if (!buffer_uptodate(SB_AP_BITMAP(s)[i].bh)) { reiserfs_warning(s,"sh-2029: reiserfs read_bitmaps: " "bitmap block (#%lu) reading failed", SB_AP_BITMAP(s)[i].bh->b_blocknr); for (i = 0; i < SB_BMAP_NR(s); i++) brelse(SB_AP_BITMAP(s)[i].bh); vfree(SB_AP_BITMAP(s)); SB_AP_BITMAP(s) = NULL; return 1; } load_bitmap_info_data (s, SB_AP_BITMAP (s) + i); } Thanks, --Natalie _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/