On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 11:28:09AM -0700, Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Fedora 10 on a 9650SE raid controller with a Raid 1 > configuration. The installation was successful. I have not been able to > boot yet. Looks like initrd cannot access swap event though it loads > 3w-9xxx properly. details follow. > > The first boot attempt complained that the resume device did not exist, > so i booted into rescue, but none of the partitions were mounted. Then i > booted into rescue again, and mounted /, modified fstab by replacing > labels, UUIDs, with corresponding partition names.../dev/sda[1-9]. Then > i rebooted into rescue and all partitions were mounted and i was able to > chroot /mnt/sysimage, and then regenerated initrd so it picks up changes > in fstab. > > When i try to boot the system again from disk i get the following error. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > sda: Setting up hotplug > Creating block device nodes > Creating character device nodes > Loading 3w-9xxx module > Loading shpchp module > Unable to access resume device (/dev/sda2) > Creating root device > mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3, No such file or > directory > sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This was my first attempt at installing and booting from a raid > controller. > > Any thoughts.....?? There have been a few similar reports to this in bugzilla. I think mkinitrd isn't waiting long enough for the device to settle before it tries to mount it. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
