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
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 240345 ***