Re: [Vserver] any kernel gurus know what this is?

From: Michael S. Zick <mszick_at_morethan.org>
Date: Thu 07 Dec 2006 - 14:09:10 GMT
Message-Id: <200612070809.10701.mszick@morethan.org>

On Thu December 7 2006 07:57, Chuck wrote:
>
> ok. i am definitely having problems with this new opteron machine we have...
>
> only thing i can see remotely close to an error or warning msg is this from
> the kernel:
>
> i get this message as early in the boot process as when it decompresses to
> begin boot:
>
> "kernel mapping table up to 100,000,000 at 8000:d800"
>
> this is a linux 2.6.18.3 kernel
>
> 2.6.18-vs2.1.1-gentoo-r1
>
> could this be a disk controller address?
>
>
> last week the machine died twice both with disk errors, the 2nd time it
> actually scrambled a few sectors in a lvm partition in the website vserver. i
> had to run shred on the partition to fix it.
>
> just this morning, initially i had no warning something was wrong until i
> tried to execute any command and got back 'command not found'. turns out the
> running system could not access the disk array in any fashion. a power cycle
> brought it back to normal and it has been running ok for the past few hours.
>
> in case it helps
> hardware is
> 2xopteron dual core 265
> tyan 2882D motherboard
> 4gb registered ram
> 2 sata2 drives in raid1 configuration.
>

There is a patch in 2.6.18.5 that mentions sata drives.
Haven't tried it yet.

There are several distro's that are planning to include
2.6.18 in their end-of-year releases. It has been getting
a lot of maintenance recently.

> could i have a setting wrong in the kernel?
>

Like in cockpit error?

Mike
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