Public bug reported:
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a white box. After installation the
system failed to boot, as the root fs couldn't be found. I noticed that
some of the hard drives were not found and consequently the RAID5 stripe
hosting the LVM volume hosting the root fs couldn't be constructed. It
turned out that the sata_sil driver modules wasn't loaded at boot time,
hence the RAID controller (only used in JBOD mode here) wasn't
initialized at the drives attached to it not presented to the host.
I added the 'sata_sil' module to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (along
with all the other modules loaded by the installation tool running in
rescue mode), changed the driver-policy in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d
/driver-policy from 'MODULES=dep' to 'MODULES=list' and rebuilt the
initramfs (using `dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-24-generic`. Now
the server boots successfully.
I like the idea of running the system only with the drivers needed, but
perhaps the tool deciding on which modules get in should err on the side
of a driver too much, rather than a driver too few.
--8<--
tho@paris:~$ dpkg -l|grep initramfs-tools
ii initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13 tools for
generating an initramfs
ii initramfs-tools-bin 0.99ubuntu13 binaries
used by initramfs-tools
-->8--
hth
** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006718
Title:
sata_sil not loaded at boot time, if driver-police is MODULES=DEP
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1006718/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
