2009/3/30 AlesD <ales_d@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hello, > > I have installed HP-PA port of Debian 5.0 and got into following problem. > > The root filesystem is on SW RAID. At the end of kernel initialization comes > reset on SCSI bus. After this reset it takes about 6 seconds before the > attached SCSI disks become "visible" and are detected by kernel. The > initialization process however goes on and during this 6s it tries to > assemble the MD device. Since the discs do not exist yet the assembly fails > and root filesystem is not found. The init script waits 3 minutes before > giving up - which would normaly do the trick if the root was directly in one > partition. With RAID (and LVM a top of it) the init ends with fiasco. > > To overcome this I put simple "sleep 30" in the initram scripts - just > before assembly of the MD device. I understand that this issue is more for > Debian, but before reporting ther I'd like to ask here: > 1) does anyone here know, why there is the reset/delay during boot, and > 2) and if message "Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods" > might have anything to do with this problem. I've experienced similar problem with root on raid and Debian kernels. It's definitely a Debian specific issue, afaict. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
