Fedora 10 on a Dell 2950 - problems on first boot

Harald Schwier schwier at rvs.uni-hannover.de
Thu Nov 27 16:39:50 UTC 2008


>I'm trying to get Fedora 10 installed on a new Dell 2950 with a PERC6
>(megaraid_sas)  device. It appears to install correctly, but on first
>boot it fails. I've removed rhgb and quiet from the boot params and
>you can see the result here (there's some overlap between
>screenshots):
>
>http://junk.mulberry.aspectgroup.co.uk/f10/
>
>What's odd, is that there are "Unable to access resume device" and
>"error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot" errors (second screenshot)
>before the PERC volumes are detected (fourth screenshot). I can only
>assume that it's getting ahead of itself, and this is the problem.
>Once it gets to this stage, nothing happens (apart from the screen
>blanking after a while).
>
>Has anyone had a similar problem? Is there a kernel parameter I can
>pass to get it to boot?

//Yes to both of these questions. You have to pass "scsi_mod.scan=sync" to the kernel.
Bye,
Harald






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