FS#20487 - after pluggin ide drive boot fails with wrong ext2 superblock on ext4 partition.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by pajaro (pajaro) - Sunday, 15 August 2010, 13:05 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 17:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
- I have a SATA2 drive that works as root partition.
- I plugged an IDE drive and the root partition (which is ext4), failed giving an error that says that it cannot verify the partition as ext2, though it is ext4. And prompts for password or Control-D. The error message is not thrown from any text file in /etc.
- Unplugging the IDE drive made the system work again, until I reinstalled grub.
- I tried comenting out the fsck line in rc.sysinit but the error also appears. In this test I also set fsckret to zero.
- Now, even if I unplug the IDE drive, boot fails unless I disable boot fsck for the root partition in fstab.
- I cannot run any live test at boot because my keyboard does not work at boot stage, though I have usbinput in HOOKS on mkinitcpio.conf. This is probably hardware related.
- An fsck to the root partiton from a live cd runs smoothly.
- I don't know what else to do.


Additional info:
- The system finds the partition. Prove of that is that it boots smoothly disabling boot check on fstab. What's more, I use UUIDs.


Steps to reproduce:
Have a SATA2 drive and plug and IDE drive.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 26 October 2010, 17:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  ask to forum for support request
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Wednesday, 18 August 2010, 12:45 GMT
I suspect the reason it doesn't work with IDE drive plugged in is that it takes precedence in BIOS and thus GRUB tries to boot from IDE drive.
As for "Now, even if I unplug the IDE drive, boot fails unless I disable boot fsck for the root partition in fstab.":
do you use unmodified initscripts when trying to boot without IDE?
This is not a bug report, but rather a support request. Forums are much better for this.

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