Attempting to change to an SMP kernel on my Debian box to make use of both processors, I have run into an interesting issue where the SMP kernel is getting I/O and inode errors; The non-SMP kernel(s) I have installed all boot up fine, with no such errors at all in dmesg and fsck saying all is fine.

Selecting the SMP kernel generates a whole series of I/O errors as well as this one where it ends up hanging:

ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=96543, blcok=196633.

If someone could enlighten me as to how to proceed to determine why this is, and if it is likely a drive issue, a fs/ext3 issue or a kernel configuration issue I'd be mighty oblidged. Not sure how to proceed on this one to determine why the SMP kernel is generating errors the others are not.


TIA,

Emerson