On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:28:01 -0800 Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:51:54PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:39:11AM -0500, Carl Brown wrote: > > > > > > Would this mess perhaps have something to do with udev/hotplug? > > > Dpkg says: > > > rc udev 0.056-3 > > > ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-25 > > > > There was a problem around 2.6.12 days as far as I remember where a > > bad initrd tool generated initrd images which loaded ide-scsi, and > > once that is done the initrd tool will make future ones to match > > your setup. I think 2.6.15 kernel will force it to not use > > ide-scsi at all, but I am not sure. > > All true. I was a faithful user of 2.6.12 debian kernel up until > yesterday. If you unloaded the ide-scsi, it would at least oops, > sometimes harmlessly, sometimes fatally. > > It sounds like there is some extra step to using debian kernels now? > It would be nice to get an FYI at least when installing one of these. > I tried the 2.6.15.x debian kernel yesterday, and it couldn't mount > root, I think because it wasn't loading the nv_sata module or the > md/raid1 or something. My feeling is along the lines of Carl's in that I think it is a udev issue. I had a similar problem to you, Andy, with the 2.6.15 kernel and a RAID1 setup - it could not find /dev/md3 to mount it (/dev/md3 was the root partition). It looked like udev had not yet created the device. Unfortunately I didn't get to experiment much as the box in question, whilst not mission-critical, could not be off-line for very long or people would start whining #;-D I just rolled it back to 2.6.12 to get it back up and running. Regards, Ozz.
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