Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure
From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 14:08:51 EST
Alright, I know what's going on now, and it looks like a problem with
the Opensuse init script. In fact, the initrd for the Xen enabled
kernel got a *different* init script than the one for the non-Xen one.
The difference being:
--- /tmp/testing/init 2007-07-24 15:53:58.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/xentest/init 2007-07-24 15:54:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -308,6 +308,9 @@
fi
fi
+caps="$(</proc/xen/capabilities)"
+if [ "$caps" != "${caps%control_d*}" ]; then
+
params=
for p in $(cat /proc/cmdline) ; do
case $p in
@@ -509,6 +512,32 @@
echo "Loading dm-snapshot"
modprobe dm-snapshot $params
+else
+
+params=
+for p in $(cat /proc/cmdline) ; do
+ case $p in
+ dm-mod.*)
+ params="$params ${p#dm-mod.}"
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+echo "Loading dm-mod"
+modprobe dm-mod $params
+
+params=
+for p in $(cat /proc/cmdline) ; do
+ case $p in
+ dm-snapshot.*)
+ params="$params ${p#dm-snapshot.}"
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+echo "Loading dm-snapshot"
+modprobe dm-snapshot $params
+
+fi
+
echo -n "Waiting for /dev/mapper/control to appear: "
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
[ -e /dev/mapper/control ] && break
In clear: the Xen init script reads /proc/xen/capabilities and if it
doesn't find the magic string "control_d" in it, willfully *skips*
loading all the SCSI and ATA stuff.
The missing piece then is the innocent little line:
/init: line 311: /proc/xen/capabilities: No such file or directory
appearing on my screen during boot ... BOOM!
If I just diligently type all the skipped modprobe commands
$ modprobe scsi_mod
$ modprobe sd_mod
$ modprobe processor
$ modprobe thermal
$ modprobe libata
$ modprobe ahci
$ modprobe pata_marvell
$ modprobe scsi_transport_spi
$ modprobe aic7xxx
$ modprobe fan
$ modprobe edd
$ ^D
into the fallback shell by hand, the system comes up without further ado.
So there, case solved. Now you sort it out who's to fix what. :-)
Thanks,
Tilman
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