From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: Installing 7.3 on VA Linux hardware with hardware RAID5 array (DAC 960 from Mylex). Boot proceeds normally until the following: Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext2 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 I have tried with both ext3 and ext2 and both fail. System hangs and is unusable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 7.3 2.Reboot machine 3.Fails Actual Results: System hangs and is unusable. Expected Results: System should have booted. Additional info:
Several things to try: #1: Boot the machine into rescue mode off the 7.3 cd and look for the /initrd directory in the mounted disk partition. If it is not present, create it and reboot. (references: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64883 http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/ch-rescuemode.html) #2: If it is present (or even if it isn't), look at the /etc/modules.conf file in the mounted disk partition. It should have the line(or very similar to): alias scsi_hostadapter DAC960 If it does not, add it. Regardless, it might also be a good idea to rebuild the initial ram disk image file. cd /mnt/sysimage chroot . mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img 2.4.18-3 (if this machine is an SMP box, substitute 2.4.18-3smp for 2.4.18-3 in both places in the mkinitrd line) Then reboot, and see if it makes a difference. My gut suspicion is that this is a dupe of http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64736 Take a look at that and see.
My system is SMP. I confirm that the following is true (from message by tcallawa): 1. /initrd exists and is empty 2. /etc/modules.conf contains ... alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx alias scsi_hostadapter1 DAC960 alias scsi_hostadapter2 DAC960 ... 3. I have rebuilt initial ramdisk file as per instructions Problem continues. System will not reboot, hangs. Problem seems identical to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64736 Booting messages on screen are very similar, only differences are the hardware found in my system is different. I do not understand how to modify initrd is indicated in message In addition to adding the devices to initrd.img as you stated you did, modify the linuxrc in the initrd.img to mount your root device instead of /dev/root. For example: my new linuxrc: mount --ro -t ext3 /dev/rd/c0d0p2 /sysroot Can someone clarify? Thanks, Keith
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 65207 ***
Is there a fix or patch for RH 7.2 besides using lilo?
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*** Bug 85614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***