Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1116 mails)

["claudioml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <claudioml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il 25/05/2012 13:03, Per Jessen ha scritto:
> claudioml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > I have worked with that upgrade for the last two days.
> >
> > At first, i have tryied the online update from 11.3 to 11.4, and after
> > a first reboot, the system hangs with an error like "unable to mount
> > VFS root" at boot time. Booted it with a 11.4 rescue cd, and i can see
> > the module hpsa, and not cciss. The raid is seen as /dev/sdx.
> > Previously, into the 11.3 it was seen as /dev/cciss/....
> > According from what read at that link - http://cciss.sourceforge.net/
> > - that controller (Smart Array P410i), it uses hpsa. Into the previous
> > kernels, it uses module cciss.
> Right.
>
> > So, i have tried to fix it modifying fstab, mtab, system.map, and
> > reinstalling grub (by the rescue disk, mounting disks, dev and proc,
> > and chrooting it on the rescue), but with no success.
> >
> > My last (and working try), is to re-install all from the scratch.
> >
> > My questions are two:
> >
> > - Any chance to have a working upgrade procedure with systems having
> > that hardware? As i can think, that is a bad issue.
> Please report it if you haven't already. https://bugzilla.novell.com/
Bug report done: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=764134
> > - How to fix a situation like this with rescue? I have tryied it, but
> > something is wrong....
> Two things - 
>
> 1) correct the references to /dev/cciss/whatever to /dev/disk/by-id
> links, and
> 2) rebuild the initrd (because it now requires module hpsa instead of
> cciss).
Ok thank you, if it happens again, i'll try this.

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