Fedora 10 i386 hang on SCSI boot

[scottro]

Great work, thank you. (I'm not a developer but as someone who uses RH at work, will probably wind up with this problem eventually if it's not bugzilla'ed.)

[tornado.tjtag]

Great news, that worked for me. Here is my info...

I installed FC10 X_86_X64 with the live DVD, same problems as everyone else with this hang. My paticular installation was done on /dev/sda8.

Reboot with the Live DVD X86_X64

unmount the partition via gui, since Fedora at this stage is mounting all the partitions it finds

open a terminal

su in that terminal
mkdir -p /mnt/sysroot

mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/sysroot
chroot /mnt/sysroot

now this is what I have to do, since my adaptec RAID 2810sa uses the aacraid module

/sbin/mkinitrd -f --with=scsi_wait_scan --with=aacraid /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64

rebooted...saw that it was at the same place and thought $$%%$#^^%& but just a second later it continued and full booted.

hope that helps ... tornado@odessaua.com

[Philio27]

@Tornado - Is the raid module bit important? If so any idea how to find out which raid module to tell it to load?

Cheers.

[tornado.tjtag]

I would probably run

dmesg | grep module

in a terminal to see what modules are being loaded by the Live DVD

[Philio27]

Thanks! Going to boot the dvd now and see if this works

[tornado.tjtag]

Let me know how it goes with you, if you have problems and it doesn't work, e-mail me and we will figure it out.

tornado@odessaua.com

[Philio27]

Genious! Working thanks very much Tornado.

Here is how I did it:

/sbin/mkinitrd -f --with=scsi_wait_scan --with=3w-9xxx /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64

Although the module name was in dmesg output, dmesg | grep module didn't find it.

I looked in /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64/modules.block (list of block device modules in FC10) and noticed there are 2 modules for 3ware:

3w-9xxx.ko
3w-xxxx.ko

Then checked dmesg output again with:

dmesg | grep 3w-9xxx and get something like this:

3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xcfeff000, IRQ: 16.
3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 3.08.00.022, BIOS BE9X 3.08.00.004, Ports: 8.

(This is from a booted FC10 system, the FC DVD output is different but similar)

Using this determined that 3w-9xxx was the correct module to use with the above mkinitrd command.

[tornado.tjtag]

Thats Great...

[jzc]

tornado.tjtag,

MAN!!!! THANKS A LOT!!!!

I been trying to do the mkinitrd command all morning long. Took a bit of a nap and I came back to your reply. Did the mkinitrd command that you did and now all is happy with my 345 server!!!!

*sends a barrel of tornado.tjtag fav*

Again man... thanks a LOT!!!!

jzc

[deepakmahajan]

I tried this but bad luck, boot halted and showing only

GRUB

any clue..

[tornado.tjtag]

A little more information would be helpfull ? what command di you use exactly ? you know the whole bit, what drivers or modules did you include, etc...

[GCFreak]

I have the same problem, except I'm not experienced at Linux, and the Live CD doesn't work for my computers, at all. It just doesn't want to work, it loads almost completely then it says:

Bug in initram /fs detected. Dropping to a shell. Good Luck!
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-3.2#

And that's the point where it stops responding to anything I type in.

Anyways, I don't know how to fix this, I have a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC (specs in sig) with two PERC 3/SC RAID controllers, with a RAID 1 system (temporary, one of the drives packed up on it) on one and a RAID 5 system (where Fedora is installed) on the other. I'm trying to run Fedora 10 i686. Thanks.

EDIT: I tried the method above, but it didn't work unfortunately, maybe I made a mistake typing it up or something, but it didn't work. =/

[deepakmahajan]

I have HP Proliant ML150 with Xeon and SCSI Raid.

As Philio27 told, I looked in /lib/modules/2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64/modules.block and noticed there are first 2 modules for 3ware:

3w-9xxx.ko
3w-xxxx.ko

then passed
/sbin/mkinitrd -f --with=scsi_wait_scan --with=3w-9xxx /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64

Then rebooted, but it stucks in display

GRUB_

nothing is happening again. I tried Super Grub, I could start my box with it. But it again can't log in with any priovious users in X with error "Authentication failed".

Also tell me how to restore Grub, If I install grub bootloader again, do my privious installation and configuration hamper?

[deepakmahajan]

Succeed after using Super Grub ISO burned on CD, used help from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Howto_Fix_Grub.

But could not login to user error could not create .ICE directory. I could go to SSH through another computer and loged in.

How to fix login, is there issue with user ownership?

[esilva]

hats off to Tornado...I did the initrd rebuild for the LSI SATA RAID 150-4 card...and worked!!!

/sbin/mkinitrd -f --with=scsi_wait_scan --with=megaraid /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686