vmware VM with kernel 2.6.27-1

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 15:39 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 18:03 +0200, Bruno GARDIN wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> 	What I would recommend for the moment is to boot into a working kernel
> and edit /sbin/mkinitrd and go to line 1411 or there about and change:

> 	wait_for_scsi="no"

> 	to

> 	wait_for_scsi="yes"

> 	Then rebuild your initrd like this:

> 	mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.27-3.fc10.i686.img 2.6.27-3.fc10.i686

> 	This may not be the final solution.  This is just a workaround to force
> wait_for_scsi for all initrd builds.  That may be suboptimal in the long
> run but necessary here for now.

	From the discussion in bugzilla, there's now another option (and a
half).

	If you use the option --with=scsi_wait_scan with mkinitrd, it should do
almost the same thing.  It should achieve the same result just slightly
differently.

	The half option is the same option just another way.  It's the fact
that this you can stick into /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd as follows:

MODULES=scsi_wait_scan

	So now you don't have to modify the mkinitrd script and you don't have
to specify it explicitly on the command line either.

> 	Mike

	Mike

> > 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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> > 
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> > BeGe
> > 
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