Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 395881
Anaconda makes a RAID 1 system upgrade to Fedora Core 8 unbootable
Last modified: 2008-01-31 05:48:40 EST
Description of problem: The booting stops with a kernel panic immediately after the upgrade of my Fedora 7 on a x64_86 system with 2 disks in Linux RAID 1. The symptom was clearly indicating that the kernel cannot mount the root directory. Suspecting that the RAID kernel modules were not included in the initrd image I booted in the repair mode the installation cd and recreated the initrd image. It didn't help. After some further investigation I figure out what was the problem. The system did not have previously a /etc/mdadm.conf file. Fedora 7 was every time matching the physical raid volume between themselves. For some reason during the upgrade process anaconda created the /etc/mdadm.conf file but decided to list there only the volumes that where listed nominally in my /etc/fstab: /dev/md1 and /dev/md2. For the rest of the md volumes anaconda did not create entries in the new /etc/mdadm.conf file. Among those volumes was /dev/md4 which was hosting a LVM on which the root partition actually was. During the boot because the /etc/mdadm.conf file existing, I assume the kernel was not doing anymore the discovery and thus never finding the LVM on which the root was. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Official Fedora 8 installation disk How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 267111 [details] fstab
Created attachment 267181 [details] mdadm.conf with the part created by anaconda and the part added by me to enable booting
Same problem here. After the upgrade /etc/mdadm.conf seems to be incomplete, missing the root partition. The last entry was missing after the upgrade, being a raid5 array: # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=ece6ee77:b276bc1d:0239ad48:694e45d0 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=713dcb38:131f75e0:ceada547:9ddc1617 ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid5 num-devices=3 uuid=58698548:5f378ab7:fed52f1c:7cd4a3fd Boot failed as this was the root partition
fresh fc7 installs have the /etc/mdadm.conf. did you upgrade from fc6 to fc7 and then to fc8? maybe anaconda is overwriting said file. running some tests...
yep, as I suspected. the file gets overwriten. Anaconda thinks that fstab is god :)
Created attachment 293478 [details] create the file using mdadm This is the patch for rawhide. posted on the devel list to see what the community says.