Going nuts Compiling 2.4.25 on Redhat 9 with IBM Xseries

[cgull]

Here is my scenario:

Redhat 9 on an IBM xseries 306
ATA drive
Istalled RH with LVM support and EXT3

Need to get LVS up and running so I grab 2.4.25 source from kernel.org

After installing custom kernel, I get passed initrd, etc and then it says 'failed" for all of the mount attempts. So basically nothing works. I have insured that I compiled EXT3 and EXT2 into the kernel, and LVS, initrd, ramdisk, etc. I have recompiled at least 10 times trying different IDE and block device options even long shot stuff. This has become very frustrating and I could use some help. I suspect that I am missing a kernel option. I can boot with the generic 2.4.20-30.9 RH kernel but don't know how to see what disk / fs drivers etc are in use.

[Dolda2000]

Can you post the exact kernel messages before and at the point of failure?

[cgull]

Ok, how can I get them? Is there a boot log somewhere when you cant mount fs? Do I need to connect a serial cable and redirect the console? It does not stop scrolling on the first failure.

[cgull]

Where it is failing is when it attempts to mount my EXT3 fs's. Eventually, it gets to the login w/o /usr, /var, /export. When I do mount -a, it says "EXT3 not supported in kernel", but in the kernel config I have "CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y". What am I missing?

[Dolda2000]

You can get the last 8 KBs or so of kernel messages by running dmesg. Could you also check /proc/filesystems and see if it lists ext3? Can you also post your /etc/fstab?

[cgull]

Thanks Dolda

ext3 is in /proc/filesytems

Here is fstab:
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/export10982 /export10982 ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
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Here is the dmesg output:

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Linux version 2.4.25 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Sun Feb 29 01:22:11 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000006ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000006ffd0000 - 000000006ffe0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000006ffe0000 - 000000006ffe8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000006ffe8000 - 000000006fff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000006fff0000 - 0000000070000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fb0b0
hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 IBM ) @ 0x000fe030
ACPI: RSDT (v001 IBM M51SL 0x00000001 IBM 0x00000000) @ 0x6ffe0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM M51SL 0x00000001 IBM 0x00000000) @ 0x6ffe014b
ACPI: ASF! (v016 IBM 0x01000000 0x00000000) @ 0x6ffe0030
ACPI: MADT (v001 IBM M51SL 0x00000001 IBM 0x00000000) @ 0x6ffe00e3
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM M51SL 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] high edge lint[0x1])
Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: IBM Product ID: M51G APIC at: 0xFEE00000
I/O APIC #1 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC01000.
I/O APIC #3 Version 17 at 0xFEC02000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 3 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda1
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1999.889 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3984.58 BogoMIPS
Memory: 904116k/917504k available (1792k kernel code, 13004k reserved, 658k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping 07
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1463.49 usecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Error: only one processor found.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Setting 1 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 1 ... ok.
Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
Setting 3 in the phys_id_present_map
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 3 ... ok.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 1-0, 2-0, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 2-8, 2-9, 2-10, 2-11, 2-12, 2-13, 2-14, 2-15, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7, 3-8, 3-9, 3-10, 3-11, 3-12, 3-13, 3-14, 3-15 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
..... (found pin 0) ...works.
number of MP IRQ sources: 19.
number of IO-APIC #1 registers: 16.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 16.
number of IO-APIC #3 registers: 16.
testing the IO APIC.......................

IO APIC #1......
.... register #00: 01000000
....... : physical APIC id: 01
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 000F0011
....... : max redirection entries: 000F
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 01000000
....... : arbitration: 01
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1

IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 000F0011
....... : max redirection entries: 000F
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 02000000
....... : arbitration: 02
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
04 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
07 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

IO APIC #3......
.... register #00: 03000000
....... : physical APIC id: 03
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 000F0011
....... : max redirection entries: 000F
....... : PRQ implemented: 0
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 03000000
....... : arbitration: 03
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
04 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
07 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:0
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ17 -> 1:1
IRQ22 -> 1:6
IRQ23 -> 1:7
.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1999.6058 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.9803 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 999803, slice: 499901
CPU0<T0:999792,T1:499888,D:3,S:499901,C:999803>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0220, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:0f.1
PCI: Discovered peer bus 02
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I3,P0) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I4,P0) -> 22
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I5,P0) -> 23
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: no supported devices found.
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.7.0 20020828 on minor 1
[drm:drm_init] *ERROR* Cannot initialize the agpgart module.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: IC35L060AVV207-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LG CD-ROM CRN-8245B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78156288 sectors (40016 MB) w/1821KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
es1371: version v0.32 time 01:24:19 Feb 29 2004
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Adding Swap: 1052216k swap-space (priority -1)

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[Dolda2000]

I'm guessing that it is those disklabels. I have never ever seen disklabels work when upgrading the kernel. Try replacing the LABEL=xxx entries in fstab with the actual devices instead - I'm fairly certain that should make it work.

Btw., I thought the xSeries ran on MIPS CPUs. Was that wrong?

[cgull]

It is actuall a P4 1u server. I have been able to get the kernel to load. There were allot of things wrong. I had some orphaned entries in grub.conf, also I did not have romdisk loaded for initrd. Finally, I had to compile ext3 into the kern. Seems good now.