Boot fail with sunix sata4000 controller card

gishten · 2009-08-13 20:16:08

Hi!

I recently converted from newer hardware to som older stuff on my personal server, I also bought a sunix sata4000 controller card for my two sata harddrives. http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/Product_D … 34&sid=367

I've successfully been running raid 1 with mdadm mirroring all four partitions using the old motherboards built in sata connection.

When i tried booting without doing any changes the raid arrays failed to assamble resulting in a kernel panic. So i reinstalled using the 2009.08 release, reassembling my arrays, writing a new filesystem på the /-array, coniguring grub according to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … VM_volumes. Google suggested adding the sata_sil module along with the mdadm hook to my kernel via mkinitcpio.conf and then running mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img

This failed to with another kernelpanic. The last lines are somthing like:

md will configure md1 (super-block) from /dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1, below (for every md(1-4) and sd(a-b)(1-4)
EXT3-FS: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-FS: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
kinit: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
kinit: opening console: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: kinit Not tainted 2.6.30-ARCH #1
Call Trace:
[<c03cebcd>] ? panic+0x5b/0xff
[<c013f624>] ? do_exit+0614/0x6f0
[<c02dce40>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0xe0
[<c013f810>] ?complete_and_exit+0x0/0x30
[<c0103d74>] ?  syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Sound like arch was unable to load tty? How is this possible?

Can someone shed som light on this?

djszapi · 2009-08-15 21:46:35

Hello gishten!

Copyinh the console file from livecd ?
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62549

Or in our wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … rnel_Panic

gishten · 2009-08-21 19:28:29

djszapi wrote:

Hello gishten!
Copyinh the console file from livecd ?
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62549
Or in our wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … rnel_Panic

I redownloaded a new liveimg and double checked the md5.

Copying the console file didn't work.

So I tried installing without mdadm, with great success. The sad thing is that i don't have raid anymore. I'm gonna try some more and make a decision later, thanks for your help

I'm pretty sure that I've setup mdadm correct since I've done it before and I followed the guide closely, could there be a problem with the controller card and mdadm?

djszapi · 2009-08-23 05:39:43

You can check it if you try it under other distribution/livecd/kernel version, under other pc, etc.

Arch Linux

#1 2009-08-13 20:16:08

Boot fail with sunix sata4000 controller card

#2 2009-08-15 21:46:35

Re: Boot fail with sunix sata4000 controller card

#3 2009-08-21 19:28:29

Re: Boot fail with sunix sata4000 controller card

#4 2009-08-23 05:39:43

Re: Boot fail with sunix sata4000 controller card

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