Re: Problems with mounting filesystems from /dev/hdb (kernel 2.6.18.1)

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon Nov 06 2006 - 12:57:53 EST


Jano wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Recently I've downloaded and compiled kernel 2.6.18.1. After installing
> modules and kernel and updating Grub I rebooted my box and tried to
> launch new kernel. Everything was launching nicely, but while loading
> GDM the screen went black and I was unable to switch console (using
> ctrl+alt+Fn). I've rebooted using single user mode and logged in as
> root. What I've discovered is the fact that I cannot mount any
> filesystem from /dev/hdb. All filesystems from /dev/hda work as they
> ought to, but when I try to mount something from the second hard disk I
> get:
>
> # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /home
> /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /home is busy
> # umount /home
> /home not mounted
>
> Here you've got my /etc/fstab:
>
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> 1
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdb1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat user,auto 0 0
>
> Currently I am using kernel 2.6.15 from Ubuntu repositories. All
> filesystems work perfectly. Have you got any ideas what might be going
> on?
dmesg >2.6.15
reboot
dmesg >2.6.18
diff -u 2.6.15 2.6.18 >post_this_to_lkml
might help us. Also attach /proc/mounts.

regards,
--
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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