12-08-2004
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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