Problem booting F10 from 3ware 9650SE controller

[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

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