Bug#401916: initramfs-tools: [powerpc64] i-t tries to mount RAID/LVM stuff before the disk are up -> unbootable
Package: initramfs-tools
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Sorry maks for this RC bug, but i think the severity is deserved.
Today i went to the datacenter to reboot the xserve G5 i have there, for some
random reason, and what was not my surprise to notice that the box didn't come
up anymore.
After some dmesg examination, i noticed that the sata disks did come up only
after i-t tried to bring up the RAID and LVM stuff, which is really not nice.
on this machine, root is on a LVM, inside a RAID1 on two physical disks.
Furthermore, playing offline without any info with the box, i was not able to
convince i-t to mount the partition and investigate, but well, i guess i would
have been able to do so if i had the code available, or more time to
investigate.
The box is currently switched off until i can come back with a fix to this
issue (oh, and it refused to eject the CDROM i put in it to try to boot the
debian-installer in resuce mode :).
Friendly,
Sven Luther
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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