On Fri, 08 Jul 2011, Roel Brook wrote: > When booting the system, it seems there is a race condition between assembling > a mdadm array, and scanning and / or activating VGs which have it's PV on this > array. > > I have a mdadm array (ICH9R fakeraid BIOS array), where one of the partitions > is a PV. On this PV, there is a LV for the root filesystem. > > Since ~ 2.6.37, the initramfs does not find the VG all the time. This means, I > have to boot the system a couple of times, before the VG is found, and the > root > filesystem is mounted. > > There is no real logic in how often initramfs succesfully finds the VG. It's > about a 1 in 3 chance of it booting succesfull. However, sometimes I have to > reboot the system about 10 times before the VG is finally found. Sometimes it > finds it immediatly. > > When in the shell for the initramfs, the RAID array seems to be assembled fine > (this is also reported in the console output). Also, when executing a "lvm > vgdisplay", the VG is there. Once the VG is activated, the LV's can be mounted > fine. > > Attached are the dmesg output, the contents of /proc/mdstat and the output of > "lvm vgdisplay" after running a "lvm vgchange -ay"
tried to use rootdelay=X with a small value? see http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110708113729.gc4...@stro.at
