Bug 188197

Summary:	nash fails to mknod cciss and i2o devices
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Yuri Gelfand <ygelfand>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	adrian, Axel.Thimm
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Description Yuri Gelfand 2006-04-06 20:36:55 UTC

Description of problem:

This occures via a basic initial installation of FC5 (only tried x86_64, but I
assume possibly others), via the default (5.0.32) mkinitrd.  nash (or more
specifically mkblkdevs) fails to create /dev/cciss/* block devs when in
initrd:/init.  This appears to be due to the move to use of sys/block reading,
and I can only assume that /dev/cciss!cXdXpX nodes are created instead. 
Installations however, uses /dev/cciss/cXdXpX as rootfs.

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC5 w/ rootfs on a device requiring cciss.ko
2. Boot Machine
  
Actual results:

Unable to find rootfs, kernel panic.

Expected results:

Machine boots properly, no kernel panic.

Additional info:

Manually added

mkdir /dev/cciss
mknod /dev/cciss/cXdXpX b MAJ, MIN

to initrd:~init right before call to mkrootdev, and system boots just fine.

Comment 1 Adrian Reber 2006-04-20 15:31:13 UTC

I have the same problem with i2o devices, they are also in a subdirectory
(/dev/i2o) and mkblkdevs creates them as /dev/i2o!hda instead of /dev/i2o/hda.

This worked on FC4 and that's why I am still using a FC4 kernel.

I am having this problem on i386.

Comment 2 Peter Jones 2006-08-16 21:28:46 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196360 ***