Problem booting F10 from 3ware 9650SE controller

[Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle]

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.....??

Thanks.
- Ted

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 11:28 -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.....?? 
Most likely you are hitting mkinitrd bug 466534
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466534

[Dave Jones]

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

[Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 15:12 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  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. 
Thanks. adding scsi_wait_scan to initrd fixes the problem.

- Ted