Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 238294
LiveCD System don't boot on a scsi system
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:50:20 EST
Description of problem: LiveCD System don't boot on a scsi system (with option: Into RAM). Error message (similar): root filesystem can't be mounted (dev/root) ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F-6.93-i386-Live.iso How reproducible: Try to boot from a scsi cdrom. Actual results: After timeout i get prompted to do it manually (bash shell). Additional info: Adaptec Controller
What specific controller? Can you post the full messages?
Hello Bill, these are the controllers - the CD-ROM drive is attached to the U2W one. class: SCSI bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: aic7xxx desc: "Adaptec AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U" vendorId: 9004 deviceId: 8178 subVendorId: 0000 subDeviceId: 0000 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 9 pcifn: 0 --- class: SCSI bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: aic7xxx desc: "Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891" vendorId: 9005 deviceId: 001f subVendorId: 9005 subDeviceId: 000f pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 6 pcifn: 0 My System is: http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/show?UUID=be0de4a9-154b-47c8-8416-4f2c018d8da7 About the messages: As normal the kernel starts kprintf()ing messages. The last ones are about loaded USB modules etc.. Then after timeout (because / isn't found) i get dropped into a bash shell. See initramdisk's init file on line >244. > WARNING: Cannot find root file system! is the message. I haven't investigate this so much but imho: Would loading the aic7xxx module resolve this? Best Regards CM
Yes, just aic7xxx wasn't included in the module list for the live initramfs... I added it yesterday and it'll be in this week's live image when I spin it.