Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 234133
Kernel panic caused by failure in initrd after standard installation
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:43 EST
Description of problem: After a normal installation including software RAID of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Server) at a HP rx2600 Itanium 2 server, the boot process ends with the screenshot attached below. RAID DEVICES /dev/md0 ext3 15202.1MB (one disk as hotspare) Hard Drives /dev/sda /dev/sda1 vfat 102MB (boot) /dev/sda2 Software Raid 15202MB /dev/sda3 swap 1992MB Free 63MB /dev/sdb /dev/sdb2 Software Raid 15202MB /dev/sdb1 swap 2157MB /dev/sdc /dev/sdc2 Software Raid 15202MB /dev/sdc1 swap 2157MB Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Standards from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release. How reproducible: Everytime on a HP rx2600 Itanium 2 server. Actual results: Non-bootable system after standard installation. Expected results: Bootable system after standard installation...
Created attachment 151011 [details] Screenshot from kernel panic
Sounds like something is missing from the initrd image. what does the initrd image looks like?
Unfortunately I'm only the man-in-the-middle (ex-colleague with the server and myself with some knowledge and the interest to solves this problem, as HP rx2600 Itanium 2 servers are common machines). For now, I can provide you a "lspci -vvv" output from RHEL4 on the same machine, because the box is a project machine and should work (which does currently only with RHEL4). If there are any information, I'm able to obtain when having RHEL4, let me know. I don't know, when there's time and the possibility to re-install RHEL5 for another try and further information. And please let me know, what is needed exactly for further debugging purposes.
Created attachment 151150 [details] "lspci -vvv" output (using RHEL4 on the same machine)
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Hum? Did I miss something? Where is the real fix for this problem?
Can you boot again without the "quiet" option and show the output from *that*, so we'll have more than just the error messages?
Well, nice that you're willing to help nearly two months later when the machine went to production use with RHEL4 :( But I'll see whether I can get another box having this problem, too.
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