--- On Mon, 1/4/10, Ben M. <centos at rivint.com> wrote: > From: Ben M. <centos at rivint.com> > Subject: [CentOS-virt] Xen box down > To: centos-virt at 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. -- Mark