vmware VM with kernel 2.6.27-1

[Bruno GARDIN]

Michael i am following the bugzilla  466071 on this problem but there
is no obvious bypass (as far as i understand). What do you suggest as
the simplest one ?

Regards.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> 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"
>> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com> Message-ID:
>> <4a2527c40810111055h3c7b9e7bqb3fd93de477b7cbc at mail.gmail.com>
>> 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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BeGe