Hi,
after upgrading an FSI RX/300 from etch to lenny the machine would not
boot anymore. It got stuck in the initrd not beeing able to find the
root filesystem. The cause was that the aacraid took too long to make
the root filesystem available. Thus the boot timed out and the initrd
waited for the root filesystem to get available. After some seconds >45
the root disks (sda on an aacraid) got available but the boot failed
anyway dropping into the initrd. The cause was that the root is an lvm
which is on that disk and the lvm does not get retried after more disks
get available.
I got the machine to boot by running /scripts/top-local/lvm2 which made
the root filesystem in the lvm available and ctrl-d to continue booting.
I think after more disks get available the initrd should retry running
the lvm detection otherwise a lot of lvm based systems might die/get
stuck on upgrade.
I'd consider this a RC bug - no clue whose fault this is though ...
Flo
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