Ext3 users - May 2002 - "Partition Check:" ?

As soon as I use a kernel with ext3 support boot up freezes with:

"Partition Check: /dev/bus/etc/with/ide/bus"

 I am trying to make doublely sure that it is ext3 causing the problem by
removing the journals I added to the original ext2 filesystems using
"tune2fs -j /dev/hda1" ( / & /usr are ext3 while hda2 is swap by
the way)

 Unfortunately I'm having trouble find a rescue disk that supports ext3 /
e2fs tools that will boot; I have a scsi cdrom that cannot be booted from.

 What causes the partituion check to crash the whole system? Even a soft
reset is impossible.

 I have made correct initrd entries in lilo.conf and tried a kernel that
doesn't require them too.

Hi,

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:15:58PM +0100, AONZ68 wrote:
>  As soon as I use a kernel with ext3 support boot up freezes with:
> 
> "Partition Check: /dev/bus/etc/with/ide/bus"
Filesystems have nothing to do with partition checks.  I'd
double-check your kernel config first.
>  What causes the partituion check to crash the whole system? Even a soft
> reset is impossible.
It looks like a common problem with some current IDE driver/controller
combinations --- there are IOs failing to complete, so the first time
you try to read data from the disk, things lock up.  That occurs
during the partition read.

Try booting with the "ide=nodma" kernel option; that may work-around
the problem.

Cheers,
 STephen