Bug 240346 - Fedora 7 or FC7 kernel panic issue with 2.6.21 kernel on booting with vmware
Summary: Fedora 7 or FC7 kernel panic issue with 2.6.21 kernel on booting with vmware
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 240345
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-16 16:46 UTC by ketan kothari
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-05-16 16:51:24 UTC
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Description ketan kothari 2007-05-16 16:46:07 UTC
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:
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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!
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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
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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

Comment 1 ketan kothari 2007-05-16 16:51:24 UTC

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


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