Fedora 10 Boot hang

[Duane Morris]

Just tried the new Fedore 10 DVD iso, installes fine, then I reboot and it hangs.

sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI Disk
sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI generic sq1 type 0

And then I'm toast.  Any Ideas

Thanks
  Duane

[Duane Morris]

FYI, I have an Adaptec 2940 controller with two 80GB FWD drives.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Duane Morris 
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  Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:12 PM
  Subject: Fedora 10 Boot hang

Just tried the new Fedore 10 DVD iso, installes fine, then I reboot and it hangs.

sdb: sdb1 sdb2
  sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI Disk
  sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI generic sq1 type 0

And then I'm toast.  Any Ideas

Thanks
    Duane

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[Simon Andrews]

Duane Morris wrote:
> Just tried the new Fedore 10 DVD iso, installes fine, then I reboot and 
> it hangs.
>
> sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI Disk
> sd 0:0:8:0: [sdb] attached SCSI generic sq1 type 0
>
> And then I'm toast.  Any Ideas

Yes!  Sounds just like what happened to one of my servers.  I spent 
hours trying to figure it out.

In the end I figured out that there has been some change to the SCSI 
initialisation code such that it hangs trying to detect the DVD drive if 
it doesn't have a disc in it.  Try putting a CD into your CD drive and 
boot again.

If this turns out to be your problem too please add a note to:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=473424

Cheers

Simon.

[potat0]

Yes, I got the solution and found success. This is a Fedora-SCSI issue which can be solved with the following

1) Boot from rescue mode (use Fedora10 DVD )
2) chroot /mnt/sysimage/
3) /sbin/mkinitrd -f --with=scsi_wait_scan /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE

Note: Please replace "initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE.img" and "2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.PAE" with the correct distro image & version you have (applicable in case of any change )

4) exit
5) reboot

That's it. Now Fedora can scan SCSI and boot from /dev/root.

Cheers

Praveen Raj