Bug#401916: initramfs-tools: [powerpc64] i-t tries to mount RAID/LVM stuff before the disk are up -> unbootable
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
hmm yes i know of that situation it affects a certain range of roots.
> 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.
the trouble is that udevsellte exists to early that mean when
the scsi/usb discs are not up yet.
hitting raid/lvm2 roots on those devices and more general lilo boots
as there you have no root dev to wait for.
i notified udev upstream for it, but got no response i'll reask privately.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116189244404693&w=2
> 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.
you should have rerun the early initramfs-tools stages, see init.
than it works.
best regards
--
maks
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