I can not mounting partition /boot

[Pontiy_Pilat]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.24-19-server

I have a trouble with kernel 2.6.24 from Ubuntu 8.04.1 (both 2.6.24-18 and 2.6.24-19) on my server - HP proliant DL380 G5.

RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array Controller (rev 03)

The problem is that the kernel cannot mount the partition /boot while booting the OS. The system reports that the filesystem is blocked, but it should not be blocked. If I try to mount the partition manually I get the following message:

root@server:~# mount /boot
mount: /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 already mounted or /boot busy

root@server:~# modinfo cciss
modinfo: could not open cciss: No such device

I thought that the other software is guilty, but I tried to mount this partition from initramfs console and also has got the same result.

After loading of the earlier version of the kernel, everything worked fine. I think that the error is either in the cciss driver or in block drive layer. The disk is partitioned into one primary ext3 filesystem and one logical lvm volume containing all other ext3 volumes.

Work version of kernel is 2.6.18 and cciss driver is 3.6.10. On broken kernel version is 2.6.24-19 and cciss is 3.6.14.
I tried to rebuild good kernel (2.6.18) with newer cciss driver(3.6.18-17) and have good result, the kernel works fine. Then I tried to rebuild the same kernel with the cciss 3.6.14, but not any partition was mounted, so I consider the driver is broken. I tried to rebuild the broken kernel with other versions of cciss drivers, but unsuccessfully due to compilation errors.

arch amd64

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Pontiy_Pilat,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 274570

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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