https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206943 Bug ID: 1206943 Summary: mkinitrd with self-build nonmodular kernel, building initrd for kernel-default kernel, fails to include mdraid modules Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-bugs@opensuse.org Reporter: patrick.schaaf@yalwa.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- I'm happy to see this report closed right away as exotic, but thought I'd report anyway... I'm used to run tumbleweed, for quite a few years and very happily, on production machines (host + kvm virtual machines), using my own, almost-nomodular kernel builds. On the host side, that includes initrds, built the normal way with mkinitrd + dracut and no customization needed. Good. Now I ran into an issue when, for a different reported issue, I got asked to try + reproduce with actual tumbleweed kernel-default. So I installed that, mkinitrd ran normally - and it failed to boot properly. The system (host) where that happened, uses RAID1 (md raid) disks (and LVM on top) for boot + root. What I found is that mkinitrd, apparently because the currently running kernel (my own) has MD drivers built in (not loaded as modules), fails to include the drivers/md modules into the initrd. If I change "instmods '=drivers/md'" to "hostonly='' instmods '=drivers/md'", in 90mdraid/module-setup.sh, I get it to include the modules + get a working boot. If I revert that change + rebuild the initrd again while the suse kernel-default is running (with raid1.ko in lsmod), again I get a working initrd with the modules included. Hope this report helps someone who may stumble across the same issue, even if no change results from it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.