Fedora 10 on a Dell 2950 - problems on first boot

[Richard Underwood]

Cheers!

Richard

2008/11/27 Harald Schwier <schwier at rvs.uni-hannover.de>:
>> 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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