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Old 05-01-2010, 10:58 AM   #1
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kernel panic with second hard drive connected


I have a sata drive used for storing music and videos formated with jfs that is somehow corrupted. I can boot the pc with the drive connected using a Slax CD but can not boot using my Slackware install with kernel 2.6.33.2. I can only boot Slackware with this sata drive disconnected

I want to try and recover the music and videos on this hd with jfsrec.

Is there a way to force the boot process with the cabling connected to this drive?
 
Old 05-01-2010, 11:55 AM   #2
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Do it with a live cd like system rescue cd
 
Old 05-01-2010, 12:29 PM   #3
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Or see if your problem is that your fstab is asking for a file system check on the drive at the wrong physical address. If so, try changing it to use a UUID= or LABEL= form or just change the boot-time check options (at the end of the device description line) to "0 0". Perhaps a noauto in the options field might also help, although the "noauto" is ignored when a fsck is implied by nonzero check option values. (You should be able to do this using the Slack CD.)
 
Old 05-01-2010, 12:38 PM   #4
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Thanks, I'm running photrec now from the old Slax CD. Photorec was not included on the CD so I compiled it in an empty partition on a another ide drive (hdb1) and so far one mp3 and one ISO recovered.

I had hoped to do this with slackware booted up so I could do something else while photrec did its stuff. Maybe I'll go read a book while I wait :^)
 
Old 05-01-2010, 01:03 PM   #5
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Or see if your problem is that your fstab is asking for a file system check on the drive at the wrong physical address
Thanks for the suggestion but the drive is not even listed in /etc/fstab. I could always mkdir somwhere and mount the dev later but the problem is that the system will not even get through a boot without a kernel panic. Something is seriously odd on that disk. I can not even run /sbin/lilo without errors when that sata drive is connected. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my install of slack current 2 days ago. I was getting big EBDA errors and such at boot until I figured out it was this drive that was causing all the grief.

This is going to be a forever job as I'm only scannong for mp3's and ISO's this cycle since the bad drive is 230gb and the target recup drive is only 80 gb. Photorec says 6 hours plus and counting.
 
Old 05-02-2010, 12:49 PM   #6
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OK, here's another suggestion: One of my (older) systems failed this morning with a "kernel panic" during the boot (which was the first time it had been booted in several months). After a while, I figured out that the drive cable had failed (from age, I guess, since it wasn't being used). I replaced it with a spare, and I'm now using that system to send this note (while downloading updates to make the system current).

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