Bug 538203

Summary: F12 won't boot from an external firewire drive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alex Kanavin <ak>
Component: dracutAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: harald
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Fixed In Version: 004-4.fc12 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Alex Kanavin 2009-11-17 21:55:03 UTC 
I have installed F12 final on an external firewire drive on my Apple Powerbook G4 12" machine (PPC architecture). Install went smoothly, but machine won't boot this installation, the only diagnostics is 
"No root device found

Boot has failed, sleeping forever.
"

I believe this is due to a switch to dracut - F11 was using mkinitrd and things were working fine. Please let me know which diagnostics and tests I can run - F12 DVD in rescue mode find and mounts the firewire drive without problems.
Comment 1 Alex Kanavin 2009-11-18 00:11:55 UTC 
Created attachment 369984 [details]
dmesg output

Right. Read up a bit more on the subject of dracut debugging, added 'rdshell rdinitdebug' to the kernel command line and here are the logs I got.
Comment 2 Alex Kanavin 2009-11-18 00:12:29 UTC 
Created attachment 369985 [details]
init.log file
Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2009-11-18 09:27:33 UTC 
do you happen to know which kernel modules are needed for your firewire?
Comment 4 Alex Kanavin 2009-11-18 12:36:58 UTC 
Yes - lsmod in DVD rescue mode lists firewire_ohci, firewire_sbp2 and firewire_core.
Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2009-11-18 12:55:05 UTC 
chroot in rescue mode

edit /etc/dracut.conf

add_drivers="firewire_ohci firewire_sbp2 firewire_core"


and rebuild the initramfs.img

# dracut -f /boot/initramfs-<kernel version>.img <kernel version>
Comment 6 Alex Kanavin 2009-11-18 13:16:38 UTC 
Thanks, that helped. I think core and sbp2 were already in original initramfs, but ohci wasn't.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-11-27 15:11:53 UTC 
dracut-003-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-003-1.fc12
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-12-01 04:39:18 UTC 
dracut-003-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2009-12432
Comment 9 Alex Kanavin 2009-12-04 18:02:54 UTC 
That update has fixed the problem, thank you.
Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-01-26 10:47:09 UTC 
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-004-4.fc12
Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2010-01-27 01:04:55 UTC 
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-1088
Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2010-01-28 00:50:09 UTC 
dracut-004-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.