Description of problem: I have a VMWare virtual machine setup for Fedora Core 7 or FC7 as guest on Windows XP SP2 as a host. This is a fully patched rawhide Fedora version. I have noticed that after the kernel upgrade to 2.6.21, Fedora fails to boot with error message : No volume groups found. Last working kernel was 2.6.20- 1.2925.fc7 and it still allows me to boot successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.21-1.3149.fc7 How reproducible: Every time I try to boot it gives the following message. Red Hat nash version 6.0.8 starting Reading all physical volumes. This mat take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the Fedora using 2.6.21 Kernel 2. 3. Actual results: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Booting 'Fedora (2.6.21-1.3149.fc7) root (hd0,0) filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3149.fc7 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1cc8341] initrd /initrd-2.6.21-1.3149.fc7.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x1fb83000, 0x35c9a9 bytes] uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel Red Hat nash version 6.0.8 starting Reading all physical volumes. This mat take a while... No volume groups found Volume group "VolGroup00" not found Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Expected results: Able to boot successfully. Additional info: This happens with only vmware and virtual hard disks using scsi isilogic driver. Here is some of the reports that i could find on Red hat bugzilla -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Bugzilla Bug 230849: f7t2 install does not find hd Bugzilla Bug 230703: Fusion MPT SPI Host driver not detecting any disks Comment #1 From Jeremy Katz on 2007-03-05 15:42 EST [reply] The mptspi driver in the current kernel doesn't seem to like the vmware emulated disks. This is preventing me from booting into my vmware. I have to manually exclude the kernel package from removal process by yum to be able to boot successfully. I am able to boot successfully with kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc7
Created attachment 154844 [details] vmware vmx file settings for scsi controller
*** Bug 240347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 240346 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The issue got resolved after I upgraded the vmware player from 1.0.4 to Version 2. version 2 (2.0.0build-45731). The latest kernel version is 2.6.21-1.3149.fc7 with which it is working fine. One issue I encountered after installation of vmware player 2.0, that it gives the following ,message. Error while opening the virtual machine. The virtual machine appears to be in use. Deleting the .lck file from the directory that contains the image resolved the issue.