Hi Randy, What kind of power supply do you have? I have had a lot of really strange and seemingly random problems which were finally solved by replacing the power supply. If it is the power supply, replace it ASAP before anything else in the system fails from crappy power. But looking at your kernel oops, I'm guessing you have a bad disk or bad controller. -Eric On 8/16/06, Randy Clarksean <rclark at lakesplus.com> wrote: > (thanks in advance for any comments, etc.) > > I have been having a number of scary boot situations with my primary > work system. > > The system has booted at times and acted like it could not find the > drives. I then shut it down for a while and then ... it finds the > drives and boots without a problem. Overheating? I do not think so as > I have spaced the drives a fair distance a part to prevent an over > heating issue. Plenty or air flow in the system as well. > > There are also instances when the system just crashes for no apparent > reason - this is not good. (see error messages below system > description) > > Any particular reason why the system may not find the drives it needs to > boot? Or ... has problems in knowing what to do when it boots? > > ++++ system description +++++ > > Software: Fedora Core 5 (FC5) > > Hardware: Dual Xeon Asus MB, 3.2 GHz, 533 MHz FSB > 4 GB RAM > 4 250 GB SATA Drives > > Hard drive configuration (to the best of my knowledge) > > The system is set up with software Raid level 1. > Logical volume groups to basically give one large drive > Raid is set up for /boot, /swap, and / > All of this was set up during installation, not after the fact. I have > not tried booting it from the second boot partition, say for example to > test the system as if it crashed on the boot drive. I think i still > need to copy some files across. > > I bought new hardware in all situations and a good power supply. I did > not skimp as this is my main work computer. > > ++++ end of system description ++++ > > Error messages previously found. > > +++ previous error messages ++++++ > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: SMP > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: CPU: 3 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: EIP is at ata_pio_task+0x592/0x677 [libata] > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: eax: 04eebb23 ebx: 00000004 ecx: f7d58f08 edx: > f7c78310 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: esi: 00000002 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000282 esp: > f7d58f18 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: Process ata/3 (pid: 382, threadinfo=f7d58000 > task=f7ca3630) > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: Stack: <0>f7ca3758 c3500590 f7c78310 c3337160 faf71700 > 003e360e 00000000 00000003 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: 00000282 f7de39c0 f7c788cc f7c788d0 f7de39c0 > 00000282 c01314b0 f8831334 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: f7c78310 f7de39d8 f7de39c0 f7de39e0 c0131c9d > c0131d83 00000000 00000000 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: Call Trace: > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: [<c01314b0>] run_workqueue+0x7f/0xba [<f8831334>] > ata_pio_task+0x0/0x677 [libata] > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: [<c0131c9d>] worker_thread+0x0/0x117 [<c0131d83>] > worker_thread+0xe6/0x117 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: [<c011da13>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc > [<c01345b1>] kthread+0x9d/0xc9 > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: [<c0134514>] kthread+0x0/0xc9 [<c0102005>] > kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb > > Message from syslogd at localhost at Tue Jul 18 12:20:33 2006 ... > localhost kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5f 0b 9f 56 83 f8 31 f6 31 db 8b 44 24 08 > 8b 50 04 ff 52 1c 84 c0 79 4d a1 00 dc 3b c0 8b 54 24 08 39 82 f0 05 00 > 00 79 16 <83> 8f 94 00 00 00 04 c7 82 ec 05 00 00 03 00 00 00 e9 63 fa > ff > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >