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Firstly Hi to all of you on the forum, this is my first post & was hoping that one of you may have seen this issue & know a possible fix. I have just increased the size of my / partition using pmagic live CD with this guide, http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Res ... ic_live_cd , & my LS2 boots fine, I've also installed various software which works ok but the /dev/hda3 is not mounting at boot & the Disk full LED constantly flashes, I can manually mount /dev/hda3 to /mnt/hda & it works fine, my samba shares are all ok & I can read/write data fine but I obviously would like the /dev/hda3 to mount correctly at every boot, not sure if my fstab needs tweaking (I dont think it does) but any help/advice would be much appreciated. I have also ran the echo -n XXXX > /dev/ttyS0 command to turn the LED off but its not ideal to keep doing it at every boot, thanks in advance.

Paul.

Well, you've got to provide more information, "mount" and /etc/fstab.

Thanks for the response Andre, Here's my fstab which is the same as it was before I ran pmagic,

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0

I have also checked the avr_evtd to see if that was ok & it seems fine, not sure if that could cause this issue but I was just trying to eliminate a few things, any advice appreciated thanks.

Paul.

Anything strange when you run dmesg or mount? Are you sure /etc/fstab has got "\n" linebreaks?

Andre, Thanks again for your response, I've ran dmesg & this is some of the output that might be relevant?

EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed
Unmounting old root
ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,3)
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

I've also ran mount & I'm not sure if /dev/hda3 should be ext2 I thought it was ext3 as shown in fstab, if so can I just run mkfs to convert it to ext3?

~# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda type ext2 (rw)

Thanks Andre.

Andre, I fixed it. I just ran /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda3 & rebooted, hda3 mounted & the flashing LED is gone, I must of formatted the partition as ext2 in pmagic DOH! oh well school boy error. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction & One last question if I can, I would like to move to a 2.6 kernel but I'm a bit worried about bricking my LS2 again (must of bricked it about 10 times now) so is there real benefits in upgrading the kernel as what I really want to do is run Apache2 a bittorrent client & maybe a Media server so I think I can achieve most of this without the 2.6 kernel Although I have not managed to get the Bittorrent working as yet, Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks

Paul.

Can't help you much with kernel 2.6 for the MIPS, sorry. I would go with UBoot. Whether you need a new kernel or not --

Thanks Andre I'll take alook at Uboot, cheers.

Paul