From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10 i686) Description of problem: system will fail to reboot (unable to mount root) if you install to cpqarray controller (cciss controllers may have the same issue). Because /dev/ida nodes not getting created in initrd image Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 2.Reboot 3. Actual Results: Standard "init not found" message Expected Results: Machine should boot. Additional info: Cut-n-paste from originating issue... OS: 8.0 Beta1 Hampton system will fail to reboot (unable to mount root) if you install to cpqarray controller (cciss controllers may have the same issue). Because /dev/ida nodes not getting created in initrd image. They appear to be ignoring the root= passed in from grub or lilo and this is not working. Only way I could get the system to boot is to create /dev/ida nodes in initrd and then hard code /dev/ida/c0d0p3 on the mount command in initrd.
Hrmm... this code hasn't changed in any way that I can think of. I'll have to track down hardware now that we've moved since I don't have any and see if it still happens with the new Hampton
Does this still happen with beta 2?
yes, This still happens with Beta2.
I just tried loading beta3 on a DL380 and it's still happening :( Here is the last bit of the boot message. Loading scsi_mod module SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.0 Loading sd_mod module kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Loading cpqarray module Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5) Found 1 controller(s) cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 blk: queue c03d2fe0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Partition check: ida/c0d0: p1 p2 p3 ida/c0d1: p1 Loading jbd module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3 module Mounting /proc filesystem Mounting root filesystem mount: error 2 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 304k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
Should be fixed with mkinitrd-3.3.5-1 or better
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62206 ***