Ken Fuchs wrote: >>Ken Fuchs wrote: >> >> > > > >>>Of course, it is the kernel that is communicating the error to us. It >>>could be the kernel and not a media error at all. >>> >>> > > > >>>Does the system boot after doing the fsck, mount and backup? >>> >>> > >Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > > >>no - I can boot from Gentoo live CD, mount everything in the part table >>and chroot into the system - I'm doing a backup now - but letting it >>boot by itself - I get the same errors . >> >> > >Doing a chroot to the "/dev/hda3" mount-point is a good test, but there >could still be problems with the hard drive. > >Can you boot using a "rescue" kernel and root=/dev/hda3 option via the >Gentoo live CD? This will cause all the boot processes to be loaded >from the hard drive rather than the CD and thus exercise the hard drive >more and be more likely to detect problems with the hard drive. > > > No rescue option - how ever - I have tried playing with the device size and the fs size - shrinking both in hopes of moving the bad sectors or parts of the disk off the mount. I was able to shrink the reiserfs using resie_reiserfs and then using cfdisk shrink the device (/dev/hda3) partition size. Upon reboot it was chugging along just great until it hit the : * Calculating module dependencies.... It hung there for a long time, and then craps out with : Kernel bug at sched.c:1265! .... bunch of stack and call trace junk..... <0> Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing I get the same kernel bug message (but different line number) when booting off the live cd, then mounting, chrooting and doind an emerge sync ( I was going to recompile the kernel - but then remembered I saved off two ro three good enough kernels) - if I boot from one of my older kernels I get the same bug at sched error after a long "hang " at Calculating module dependencies.... Maybe of note: I usually always compile stuff in my kernel and weed out the junk using make menuconfig - I believe I have no modules built for anything - all compiled in.... > >The main difference between booting from the live CD and the hard drive >is where the kernel (and initrd, if any) is loaded from: > >Booting from the live CD, the kernel and initrd is loaded from the live >CD. The boot processes are also loaded from the CD, unless the >root=/dev/hda3 option is passed to the kernel. > >Booting from the hard drive, the kernel and initrd is loaded from the >hard drive. The boot processes are also loaded from the hard drive. > >It appears that either the kernel or initrd (if any) on /dev/hda1 >is corrupt and needs to be replaced. The kernel and initrd (if any) on >the Gentoo live CD will probably work fine with root=/dev/hda3. > > > As mentioned above there was no "rescue option" but I was able to boot using "gentoo root=/dev/hda3" from the boot prompt.... it hangs at: INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 >Sincerely, > >Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list