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12-08-2004

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suse server 8.0 on hp server problem

machine:
Hp Proliant DL145/Opterom 2.4GH
2*72 GBB SCSi hdd,
suse:
suse linux Enterprose server 8.0 for Amd 64

problem:
1. can not boot properly. have to use installation disk to boot it: enter installation and choose "boot from existing installation" and this is the only option. ( just use the boot disk and enter the boot up parameters won't work either. The bootloader is grup and doesn't work either. )
after boot it from installation disck, I checked the boot.msg and boot.omsg in /var/log directory. and there are some wiered stuffs:
boot.omsg:
Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.19
Loaded 13874 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.19.
Symbols match kernel version 2.4.19.
Error seeking in /dev/kmem

Symbol #ext3, value a019a000

Error adding kernel module table entry.

klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started.
<4>FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
<3>cramfs: wrong magic
<4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
<4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,2)) for (sd(8,2))
<4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode
<4>Using r5 hash to sort names
<4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
<5>Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
<5>Unmounting old root
<5>Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
<4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
<6>md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
<6>md: autorun ...
<6>md: ... autorun DONE.
<6>Adding Swap: 10586824k swap-space (priority 42)
<4>reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
<4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (sd(8,17)) for (sd(8,17))
<4>reiserfs: using ordered data mode
<4>Using r5 hash to sort names
Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
Kernel log daemon terminating.
....

I checked the /dev/sda using fdisk, and some strange file systems exist.

sda1 for swap (starts after 1 and end something like after 10 Gb)
sda2 for / ( located after swap, using up rest of the disk space)
sda3 for compack diagnostic( or something like that) (starts from 1 and ends at 1)

fdisk gives some hints about filesystem order is uncorrect.

so what is wrong here??? can any body help me??? to fix this, should I re-install the system??? and in reinstallation should I change the kernel options???

2. Do you think use 62 GB for /, and don't have other partition is ok for the server? or should there be some other patitions for different directories, like /var and /usr etc???

3. I have been told this server crashed the other day, and I am reponsible to find out the reason. so, what kind of log files should I check? and where is them?
the ones i find is in /var/log.
and in them, there are "warn" and " messages" contain something about that. so are these the ones that I should look into?

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startpar

STARTPAR(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  STARTPAR(8)

NAME

       startpar - start runlevel scripts in parallel

SYNOPSIS

       startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout] [-T global_timeout] [-a arg] prg1 prg2 ...
       startpar [-p par] [-i iorate] [-t timeout] [-T global_timeout] -M [ boot|start|stop]

DESCRIPTION

       startpar  is  used  to run multiple run-level scripts in parallel.  The degree of parallelism on one CPU can be set with the -p option, the
       default is full parallelism. An argument to all of the scripts can be provided with the -a option.  Processes blocked by pending  I/O  will
       cause  new  process  creation  to be weighted by the iorate factor 800.  To change this factor the option -i can be used to specify another
       value.  The amount weight=(nblockedxiorate)/1000 will be subtracted from the total number  of  processes  which  could  be  started,  where
       nblocked is the number of processes currently blocked by pending I/O.

       The  output  of  each  script is buffered and written when the script exits, so output lines of different scripts won't mix. You can modify
       this behaviour by setting a timeout.

       The timeout set with the -t option is used as buffer timeout. If the output buffer of a script is not empty and the last output was timeout
       seconds ago, startpar will flush the buffer.

       The  -T option timeout works more globally. If no output is printed for more than global_timeout seconds, startpar will flush the buffer of
       the script with the oldest output. Afterwards it will only print output of this script until it is finished.

       The -M option switches startpar into a make(1) like behaviour.  This option takes three different arguments:  boot,  start,  and  stop  for
       reading .depend.boot or .depend.start or .depend.stop respectively in the directory /etc/init.d/.  By scanning the boot and runlevel direc-
       tories in /etc/init.d/ it then executes the appropriate scripts in parallel.

FILES

       /etc/init.d/.depend.boot
       /etc/init.d/.depend.start
       /etc/init.d/.depend.stop

SEE ALSO

       init(8) insserv(8).

COPYRIGHT

       2003,2004 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany.
       2007 SuSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.

AUTHOR

       Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>
       Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
       Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>

                                                                     Jun 2003                                                          STARTPAR(8)