--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Ben M. centos@rivint.com wrote:
From: Ben M. centos@rivint.com Subject: [CentOS-virt] Xen box down To: centos-virt@centos.org Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 12:36 PM My stock CentOS 5.4 box won't come up after a reboot as reported from my office.
Error is: "duplicate or bad block in use"
Before rebooting xm dmsg had printk suppressed messages.
The box is remote, 2 hour drive. Some advice on what hardware to bring with me and how to approach this via fsck would be welcome.
Its an nvidia dmraid boot on WD Velocirapters.
Was there a kernel update? Sometimes the new initrd does not support dmraid. If this is applicable, boot into the old working kernel and run mkinitrd against the new kernel, reboot and x-fingers. This has worked for me in the past.
My 18 yo kid has an ich5 Raid0 dual boot of Winxp/Fedora going for almost 4 years. Once when updating the kernel it was necessary to rebuild the initrd.