Bug 160158

Summary:	bad: Grub doesn't load root
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Murthy Vittala. <murthyvittala>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Tom Coughlan <coughlan>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	katzj, petrides, shillman
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Description Murthy Vittala. 2005-06-12 05:56:09 UTC

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Description of problem:
I use Adaptec raid card 3200s with two scsi hardisks implemeting RAID 1. I use dueal processor Intel servers with 1 GB Ram. 

The Redhat ES 3 loads the dpt_i2o driver perfectly and the setup completes with no errors repeating.

But when i reboot grub loads the initrd and just hangs on like that.......

My grub.conf looks like

root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda2 hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.ELsmp.img

fstab entries are

LABEL=/             /              ext3         defaults         1 1
Label=/boot         /boot          ext3         defaults         1 2
and so on........

I hope grub is not finding out the root....

When i boot with the floppy

i get the error messages stating 

VFS: can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0)
kernel panic and so on...........


I hunged up in middle instead getting the High-end server....

Thanks for the advanced help...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-4.ELsmp

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.often
2.
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2005-06-13 15:52:08 UTC

As you appear to be looking for support, please either contact Red Hat's Technical
Support line at 888-REDHAT-1 or file a web ticket at
http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/.  Bugzilla is not an official support
channel, has no response guarantees, and may not route your issue to the correct
area to assist you.  Using the official support channels above will guarantee
that your issue is handled appropriately and routed to the individual or group
which can best assist you with this issue and will also allow Red Hat to track
the issue, ensuring that any applicable bug fix is included in all releases and
is not dropped from a future update or major release.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:00:32 UTC

This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
 
If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your
support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed
information on how this bug is affecting you.