Description of problem: Trying to mount my SATA drives on my new Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 motherboard fails. The drives are accessible from my Windows XP partion including access to its EXT3 partitions that contain a FC6 installation that was installed from my old system Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 22:20:43 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 motherboard Intel Duo Core 6600 processor How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: The following steps were pasted from the FC7T3 live CD, that does boot on the system. [root@localhost~] fdisk /dev/sda1 Command: p Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 3825 3888 514080 83 Linux /dev/sda3 3889 5800 15358140 83 Linux /dev/sda4 5801 9964 33447330 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 5801 7712 15358108+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 7713 7864 1220908+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 7865 9964 16868218+ b W95 FAT32 [root@localhost ~]# mkdir /tmp/sda2 [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/sda2 [root@localhost ~]# Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: Assertion failure in dx_probe() at fs/ext3/namei.c:384: "dx_get_limit(entries) == dx_root_limit(dir, root->info.info_length)" Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: SMP Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: CPU: 1 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f8b936f6>] Not tainted VLI Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010292 (2.6.20-1.3104.fc7 #1) Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP is at dx_probe+0x175/0x2b9 [ext3] Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: eax: 00000081 ebx: ea8b8418 ecx: c0420cbc edx: ce63e030 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: esi: eaf72748 edi: efccf298 ebp: f49cccd0 esp: f49ccc94 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: Process trashapplet (pid: 4427, ti=f49cc000 task=ce63e030 task.ti=f49cc000) Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: Stack: f8b9e943 f8b9d89c f8b9e933 00000180 f8b9eab7 ce63e030 00000046 f49ccd78 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: eaf72748 00000000 00000167 0ed9017e ebeb9eec eaf72748 ebeb9eec f49ccd9c Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: f8b9403f f49ccd60 f49ccd88 dffcd58c ce63e56c 00000246 f49ccdb4 ebeb9eec Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c04061e9>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0406299>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0406459>] show_registers+0x1b8/0x289 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0406657>] die+0x12d/0x242 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0616a07>] do_trap+0x79/0x91 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0406bfa>] do_invalid_op+0x97/0xa1 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c06167dc>] error_code+0x7c/0x84 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<f8b9403f>] ext3_find_entry+0xd2/0x5af [ext3] Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<f8b95966>] ext3_lookup+0x29/0xc7 [ext3] Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0484980>] do_lookup+0xa0/0x13d Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c048674f>] __link_path_walk+0x81f/0xc7a Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0486bf5>] link_path_walk+0x4b/0xc0 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0486f1f>] do_path_lookup+0x191/0x1e2 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c048771a>] __user_walk_fd+0x32/0x44 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c04812d7>] vfs_lstat_fd+0x18/0x3e Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c048133b>] vfs_lstat+0x11/0x13 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0481351>] sys_lstat64+0x14/0x28 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0405078>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: ======================= Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: Code: 44 24 10 b7 ea b9 f8 c7 44 24 0c 80 01 00 00 c7 44 24 08 33 e9 b9 f8 c7 44 24 04 9c d8 b9 f8 c7 04 24 43 e9 b9 f8 e8 73 48 89 c7 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 45 08 89 45 ec 66 8b 53 02 66 85 d2 74 08 66 39 Message from syslogd@ at Sat May 26 23:37:05 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: [<f8b936f6>] dx_probe+0x175/0x2b9 [ext3] SS:ESP 0068:f49ccc94 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: The following bugs may be related: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/84964 This problem is a complete showstopper for me as I am currently locked out from my system.
Looks like a corrupted filesystem? Please run fsck on the partitions.
Thanks. I had lots of strange errors after buying my new motherboard. But yesterday everything was solved and I was able to install Fedora 7 on it. Thanks. Dov