Problem booting F10 from 3ware 9650SE controller

[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