vmware VM with kernel 2.6.27-1

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 19:46 -0500, Cory Rainey wrote:
> Message: 3 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:55:32 +0200 From: "Bruno GARDIN" 
> <bgardin at gmail.com> Subject: Rawhide does not boot since 2.6.27-0.398 
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I am testing rawhide for a 
> few month now but i have problem of boot since kernel 2.6.27-0.398. My 
> rawhide is a virtual system on vmware server now in version 2.0. 
> Whenever i try to boot, i got the following errors at the end : 
> Activating logical volumes VOlume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to 
> access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) Creating root device 
> Mounting root file system mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as 
> ext3. No such file or directory Setting up other filesystems setuproot: 
> moving /dev failed:No such file or directory setuproot: error 
> mounting/proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: 
> No such file or directory Mount failed for selinuxfs on /selinux: No 
> such file or directory Switching to new root and running init swithroot: 
> mount failed: No such file or directory Booting has failed Boot works 
> fine with kernel 2.6.27-0.382 but fails also with 2.6.27-1. I have 
> looked at the thread related to ext4 but i am using ext3. I have also 
> tried a new mkinitrd on 2.6.27-1 but no change. Any idea of what the 
> problem could be ?
> -- BeGe

> Exactly same problem here.

	Seems to be a race condition in the initrd.  Recent changes in the
kernel have removed dm-mirror, dm-zero, and dm-snapshot as initrd
modules.  That's resulted in a race condition where lvm starts up too
soon, before the scsi devices have settled.  More details are in another
response in a parallel branch of this thread but there are a couple of
workarounds.

	Mike
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