Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

foxbunny · 2008-01-26 13:46:27

I have two SATA II drives and two IDE drives (one HDD and one optical) in my box. I had Arch installed on first SATA II drive (/dev/sda). I changed the mkinitcpio files to load sata modules before pata, and that works okay. So, my IDE HDD is now /dev/sdc

However, I installed a second Arch onto the /dev/sdc (IDE) and it won't boot. It goes through booting process and hangs at checking the drives claiming that the /dev/sda3 has bad superblock. Now, this is really odd, because /dev/sda3 is a SWAP partition, and the init script is trying to run e2fsck on it.

How do I fix this? Should I simply (somehow) disable the filesystem check?

(Before you ask, I need the second Arch to build a LiveCD.)

noalwin · 2008-01-26 15:01:31

Maybe the filesystem id is not correct. Look with cfdisk how it's identified. If it's wrong, change it.

foxbunny · 2008-01-26 19:14:03

It's correctly identified as Linux Swap partition. Besides, the first Arch install is still working with that swap partition reporting no problems at boot time.

Here's the output of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160040803840 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a424a41

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3825        7654    30764475   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            7655        7903     2000092+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4            7904       13982    48829567+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7904       13982    48829536   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4fa7b7a5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       48641   390708801   42  SFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xec0c2373

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1           5       40162   83  Linux
/dev/sdc2               6         136     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3             137        1666    12289725   83  Linux
/dev/sdc4            1667        9964    66653685   83  Linux

And just in case, the menu.lst used to boot both Arches:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=791
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (1) Windows
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

# (2) Arch Linux
title  ArchGem
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc3 ro vga=791
initrd /kernel26.img

# (3) Arch Linux
title  ArchGem Fallback
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdc3 ro

loosec · 2008-01-26 20:04:08

Have you considered using uuid-assignments instead? This solved a random swapping of diskorder for me since I apparently had 2 diffrent sata controllers on my board. It would atleast eliminate one potential source of trouble.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

foxbunny · 2008-01-26 21:04:59

Ah, okay. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

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#1 2008-01-26 13:46:27

Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

#2 2008-01-26 15:01:31

Re: Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

#3 2008-01-26 19:14:03

Re: Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

#4 2008-01-26 20:04:08

Re: Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

#5 2008-01-26 21:04:59

Re: Boot problems with second Arch install on an IDE drive

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