On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:20:13PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > after upgrading an FSI RX/300 from etch to lenny the machine would not > boot anymore. It got stuck in the initrd not beeing able to find the > root filesystem. The cause was that the aacraid took too long to make > the root filesystem available. Thus the boot timed out and the initrd > waited for the root filesystem to get available. After some seconds >45 > the root disks (sda on an aacraid) got available but the boot failed > anyway dropping into the initrd. The cause was that the root is an lvm > which is on that disk and the lvm does not get retried after more disks > get available. > > I got the machine to boot by running /scripts/top-local/lvm2 which made > the root filesystem in the lvm available and ctrl-d to continue booting. > > I think after more disks get available the initrd should retry running > the lvm detection otherwise a lot of lvm based systems might die/get > stuck on upgrade. > > I'd consider this a RC bug - no clue whose fault this is though ...
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