Bug 734368

Summary: On boot error message no root device found, boot failed, sleeping forever
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wayne Carruthers <bugs>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: browning48ky, bugs, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Wayne Carruthers 2011-08-30 08:29:12 UTC
Description of problem:

Xenon 8 way, RAID1 boot device, runs fine on Kernel 2.6.35.11-83

Fails to boot on kernels 2.6.35.11-92 or 95 with error message

no root device found, boot failed, sleeping forever

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Sytem
2. Select Kernel 2.6.35.11-95
3. 
  
Actual results:

Boot failed

Expected results:

Boot successful

Additional info:

Turned off modeset & quiet mode

Checked and found last message on screen was 

auto assembling RAID

Cannot see any relevant messages in boot log or messages

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2011-08-30 10:53:21 UTC
Can you see if the grub entry for .11-92 or .11-95 have an initrd line and that there is a corresponding initramfs file in /boot for each?

Comment 2 Wayne Carruthers 2011-08-30 13:40:17 UTC
Yes

In /boot there is initramfs file for each kernel, there are also config files and system map files, correctly named, no spaces in names, all appear OK

Grub.conf entries from a backup file prior to the .11-95 upgrade are below, the .11-95 entry was checked & unless I am going mad I could not see a problem
 
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=c9b0aa73-fa51-487a-909f-58f06d7653ba rd_MD_UUID=836e57f9:c1cd9fca:e20a9105:d13e940c rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=c9b0aa73-fa51-487a-909f-58f06d7653ba rd_MD_UUID=836e57f9:c1cd9fca:e20a9105:d13e940c rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.img

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2011-08-30 16:35:23 UTC
We're going to need some kind of log of the boot to see what is happening.  If you have a serial port, can you log via serial console?

Comment 4 Wayne Carruthers 2011-08-31 00:00:01 UTC
From memory, no serial port on the system

Tried coming back from UUID to traditional paths, no luck on that

Comment 5 Tony Browning 2011-10-13 00:36:43 UTC
I'm expericing the same problem after boot-up without disk, (error message) (no root device found, boot failed, sleeping forever) and I am now using the same Toshiba Model100 laptop giving me this problem to write this now. But to be able to use this laptop I have to use a Fedora 15 live boot disk and I would like to save the Fedora 15 to my empty 100 GB partitioned and titled /media/vg-toshiba100 ext4 hard disk if possible. My problem began when I format (cleaned) the just mentioned hard disk of Fedora 14 so I could update to Fedora 15. In hard drive 4 devices are there:
Device 1. /dev/sr0, Mount Point: /run/initramfs/live, FilesystemType: iso9660, Total Size: 643.6MB, Availible: 0bytes.
Device 2. /dev/sr0, Mount Point: /mnt/live, FilesystemType: iso9660, Total Size: 643.6MB, Availible: 0bytes.
Device 3. /dev/mapper/live-rw/, Mount Point: is just forward slash, / , FilesystemType: ext 4, TotalSize: 3.9GB, Availible: 2.0GB
Device 4. /dev/sda2, Mount Point: /media/vg-toshiba100, FilesystemType: ext 4, TotalSize: 91.2GB, Availible: 91.2GB
In the disk analyzer tree and/or pie it shows that all of Fedora 15 files of drivers and libraries are there along with linux kernel 2.6.38.2-9.fc15.i686. I ran all the test and it reads that my disk is healthy! Any help would be most appreciative.

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