A friend of mine (chabotc@xxxxxxxxx) has been having problems booting his Dell XPS with the factory default raid setup (which he does not want to change because he doesn't want to remove all his data) ever since the dmraid alignment checks (bug 186842) were added to the kernel. Since many people are suffering from the same problem and this gives Linux / Fedora a bad name, I decided last week to go and try to fix this. So I've borrowed his PC and now after 8 full hours of debugging I've found the problem: 1) The problem is no longer the problem reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186842 (which has 162 comments!) aka the multiple chunksize problem), so this bug can and should be closed now. 2) Still dmraid setups don't work because there was a bug in nash where it didn't add the nescesarry dm "setup" lines to the initrd script, this has been fixed in rescent mkinitrd versions, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196828. 3) Still dmrais setups don't work because there is a bug in nash where it doesn't create the nescesarry /dev/dm-x nodes. I've filed a bug with patch for this, bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203241. 4) Even when you've got a patched/updated mkinitrd with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203241 fixed, chances are that your system still won't bood, because mkinitrd includes the usb-storage driver in the initrd, where it shouldn't. Its discutable if this is an mkinitrd bug though. Too fix this remove any lines containing usb-storage from /etc/modprobe.conf . An request to filter these lines in mkinitrd has been filed, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203244. Please, please fix this. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
