Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134177
panic after installing to a Smart Array
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:13 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ia64; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Debian/1.7.3-2 StumbleUpon/1.995 Description of problem: Installation on HP rx2600 with HP Smart Array 5302-128 Controller went alright. On reboot, this was the spew: ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done Loading initrd initrd-2.6.8-1.528.2.10.img...done alloc 0x3b0-0x3df from PCI IO for PCI Bus 0000:e0 failed audit(1096477925.004:0): initialized 8042.c: i8042 controller self test timeout. Red Hat nash version 4.1.11 starting Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found No volume groups found No volume groups found mount: error 2 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. install rhel4b1 to Smart Array storage (cciss/c0d0) 2. see the panic Additional info:
I tried installing again, only changing the distro to rhel3u3 GM -- same box (named cadillac), etc. Installation (via HTTP, FWIW) went fine. Reboot went fine. Got a shell prompt.
Did you use LVM at all?
No. HP firmware says there's one hardware Raid5 drive on the Smart Array. I used autopartition during the install, which doesn't do LVM by default. Unless I missed something and rhel4 changed the default. Did it? I repeat -- the ONLY thing I changed to get the installation to work was to use rhel3u3 GM instead of rhel4b1.
Ping. Is this going to be fixed in RHEL3u4?
> Is this going to be fixed in RHEL3u4? The problem report says that RHEL 4 B1 fails, and RHEL 3 U3 works. No mention of RHEL 3 U4. There is no reason to expect a problem with U4 either, but I would encourage you to test U4 beta and open a different BZ if that fails. If you can test this with RHEL 4 B2 that would be helpful. You will see that the installer does use LVM by default. If you have a problem, you might try installing without LVM. Thanks. Tom
I think Tim may have mis-typed -- obviously if it works in RHEL3u3 there's not a strong indication to worry about it being broken in RHEL3u4. The REAL issue is that RHEL4-beta1 panics with SmartArray. I understand that LVM is the default for RHEL4 installs -- can you please tell me/us how to turn it _off_ other than removing all LVM partitions?
I cleared up the "mis-typed" thing with Glen offline. He and I agree that we aren't worried about this being broken in rhel3u4. I will test this with rhel4b2 both with and without LVM. Ok to leave as NEEDINFO until I report back.
I have a Longs Peak *workstation* (e.g, zx6000) that's the same core chipsets, etc. I have not seen a panic or an MCA with/on beta-2 with this hardware.
There has been no update indicating that this problem still exists. Okay to close?
Closing.