On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:46 -0500, Cory Rainey wrote: > Message: 3 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:55:32 +0200 From: "Bruno GARDIN" > <bgardin@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Rawhide does not boot since 2.6.27-0.398 > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" > <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: > <4a2527c40810111055h3c7b9e7bqb3fd93de477b7cbc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I am testing rawhide for a > few month now but i have problem of boot since kernel 2.6.27-0.398. My > rawhide is a virtual system on vmware server now in version 2.0. > Whenever i try to boot, i got the following errors at the end : > Activating logical volumes VOlume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to > access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) Creating root device > Mounting root file system mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as > ext3. No such file or directory Setting up other filesystems setuproot: > moving /dev failed:No such file or directory setuproot: error > mounting/proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: > No such file or directory Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: No > such file or directory Switching to new root and running init swithroot: > mount failed: No such file or directory Booting has failed Boot works > fine with kernel 2.6.27-0.382 but fails also with 2.6.27-1. I have > looked at the thread related to ext4 but i am using ext3. I have also > tried a new mkinitrd on 2.6.27-1 but no change. Any idea of what the > problem could be ? > -- BeGe > Exactly same problem here. Seems to be a race condition in the initrd. Recent changes in the kernel have removed dm-mirror, dm-zero, and dm-snapshot as initrd modules. That's resulted in a race condition where lvm starts up too soon, before the scsi devices have settled. More details are in another response in a parallel branch of this thread but there are a couple of workarounds. Mike -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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