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5 Dec 2013 5 Dec '13

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c0 Summary: New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root" Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 13.1 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: tmaes@dibblecorp.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 I apologize if this is a known issue, but I didn't find a bug which was similar to this. The machine is a Dell PE 2850; two PERC hardware SCSI RAID arrays - a RAID 1 consisting of two 79GB drives (sda, sda1 is where the "/" mount is, sda2 is the swap partition) and a RAID 5 array consisting of four 300GB drives (sdb, which has only an sdb1 partition where the "/srv" mount is); 8GB ECC memory. BIOS is the last available for this machine: A07. After the initial installation, when the machine should reboot and finish with the updates, etc., the machine hangs at the "sun rising on the SUSE gecko" screen. This happens whether I'm using an x86_64 or an i586 disk (media has checked out okay). Switching to the console, I see some info that says the machine has attempted a fallback to /dev/sda1 but that it "Could not find /dev/root". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSUSE on a PE2850, a hardware RAID 1 array 2. Allow machine to reboot to complete the installation 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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10 Jan 10 Jan

17:32

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c1 Richard Roderick changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium CC| |richard@gohome.net Platform|i586 |x86-64 --- Comment #1 from Richard Roderick 2014-01-10 17:32:28 UTC --- I have this same problem. openSUSE 13.1, 64bit. DVD install and USB install tried PowerEdge 2850 with PERC in raid 5. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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22:36

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c2 Harold Brooks changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |novell@iriebrotha.org --- Comment #2 from Harold Brooks 2014-01-10 22:36:49 UTC --- I have this exact same problem. Install does not finish on a Dell 2850 w/PERC raid 1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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13 Jan 13 Jan

08:51

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c Jiri Srain changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Bootloader |Basesystem AssignedTo|jsrain@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com QAContact|jsrain@suse.com |qa-bugs@suse.de -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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09:15

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c3 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |aschnell@suse.com InfoProvider| |tim.maes@dibblecorp.com --- Comment #3 from Arvin Schnell 2014-01-13 09:15:06 UTC --- Please provide YaST logs of failed installation and screenshots of boot failure, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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14:28

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c4 Tim Maes changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tim.maes@dibblecorp.com --- Comment #4 from Tim Maes 2014-01-13 14:28:31 UTC --- Arvin - Unfortunately, I was forced to quit trying to install openSUSE v13.1 on this PE 2850. I needed this machine to be up and running before Christmas, so I resorted to installing 32-Bit openSUSE v12.3. I may have another PE 2850, with the same configuration, available to me in the very near future. If that happens, I'll be happy to research this issue further. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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19:39

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c5 Richard Roderick changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|tim.maes@dibblecorp.com | --- Comment #5 from Richard Roderick 2014-01-13 19:39:25 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=574216) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=574216) y2logs from install to PE2850 Booted from USB install. mounted small usb device to write log to, mounted as /var/log/ grub wanted to set boot order to /dev/sdb,/dev/sda,/dev/sdc with swap on /dev/sdb1, since /dev/sda was usb install I changed swap to /dev/sda1 and boot order to /dev/sda, etc. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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14 Jan 14 Jan

15:48

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c6 C. Holm changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |them4z@gmail.com --- Comment #6 from C. Holm 2014-01-14 15:48:54 UTC --- This is caused by YAST throwing away kernel modules, for whatever reason. I'm using AutoYAST and I fixed it like this: <chroot-scripts config:type="list"> +  + <script> + <chrooted config:type="boolean">false</chrooted> + <filename>chroot-fix-pe2850-initrd</filename> + <interpreter>shell</interpreter> + <source><![CDATA[#!/bin/bash +if [ -r /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel ]; then + sed -i "s/^INITRD_MODULES=\"\([^\"]*\)\"/INITRD_MODULES=\"megaraid_mbox \1\"/" /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel +else + # the file doesn't exist at this point, so we're not overwriting anything. + echo 'INITRD_MODULES="megaraid_mbox"' > /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel +fi +]]></source> + </script> During manual install, you can try to fix it during package install, but the window between the kernel(?) RPM creating /etc/sysconfig/kernel and the reboot is quite small. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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21:40

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c7 --- Comment #7 from Richard Roderick 2014-01-14 21:40:43 UTC --- Unfortunately, I am not familiar enough with the install to use that information. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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15 Jan 15 Jan

01:34

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c Xiyuan Liu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |xyliu@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aschnell@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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08:16

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c8 --- Comment #8 from Arvin Schnell 2014-01-15 08:16:17 UTC --- In the logs from comment #5 a kernel is installed so the kernel issue is another problem and should be reported as such. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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08:23

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c9 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|aschnell@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #9 from Arvin Schnell 2014-01-15 08:23:42 UTC --- The installation seems fine otherwise (from partitioner view). The problem could be that /dev/sdb doesn't have udev by-id links so if there's a device renaming during boot this could cause the boot problem. But could also be some other bootloader issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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10:36

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c10 --- Comment #10 from C. Holm 2014-01-15 10:36:15 UTC --- Just to be clear, a kernel was installed in my case, too. (I mentioned the kernel RPM because I *think* it is the package creating /etc/sysconfig/kernel, I haven't verified this however and "rpm -qf /etc/sysconfig/kernel" says the "file /etc/sysconfig/kernel is not owned by any package".) I have the exact same problem with "waiting for /dev/root to appear", and there is no way to mount the RAID devices. In previous openSUSE releases, the INITRD_MODULES were not autodetected, for 13.1 this is no longer the case (in fact that line is completely empty), so the RAID disks can't be accessed at boot time. (The script has two cases because I'm not sure the AutoYAST order of the RPM install and the script run is always the same, so I covered both cases -- script runs before install and after install.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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10:37

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c11 --- Comment #11 from C. Holm 2014-01-15 10:37:34 UTC --- Sorry: s/were not autodetected/were autodetected/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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16 Jan 16 Jan

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New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c Xiyuan Liu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |yast2-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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07:23

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c12 Arvin Schnell changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |snwint@suse.com --- Comment #12 from Arvin Schnell 2014-01-16 07:23:10 UTC --- Reassigned to bugowner of yast2-bootloader. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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3 Apr 3 Apr

08:25

New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c13 Josef Reidinger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jreidinger@suse.com AssignedTo|snwint@suse.com |mmarek@suse.com --- Comment #13 from Josef Reidinger 2014-04-03 08:25:05 UTC --- yast2-bootloader do not modify modules for initrd. It only pass if vgamode is needed. Reassign to mkinitrd maintainer as it should be autodetect if such module is needed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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2 Sep 2 Sep

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New subject: [Bug 853914] New install of openSUSE 13.1 fails; console says "Could not find /dev/root"

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853914#c14 Michal Marek changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |WONTFIX --- Comment #14 from Michal Marek --- Closing all mkinitrd bugs, since mkinitrd has been replaced by dracut. If this problem persists in 13.2 with dracut, please reopen and change the Product field accordingly. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

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