vmware VM with kernel 2.6.27-1

[Michael H. Warfield]

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.

	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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> 
> 
> -- 
> BeGe
> 
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Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
   /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/          | (678) 463-0932 |  http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
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