Re: [suse-security] Waiting for device /dev/900 to appear

[Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Werner,

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:21, Werner Penz wrote:
> OK, id did a complete new installation (same box)
> with the same disk-configuration:
>
> /dev/hda2 + /dev/hdb2 als raid1: /dev/md0  = / #root  (ext3)
> /dev/hda1  = /boot
>
> from original CD SuSe 91prof.
> minimal System installed.
>
> all works fine until i upgrade the kernel 2.6.4  to 2.6.5 from
> the ftp.suse.com with YOU.
>
> The boot aborts with:
>
> raidautorun
> ...
> waiting for device /dev/900 to appear ...(short delay ) .... not
> found....
>
>
> RAIDs never saved me from a "dilemma",
> for me, the always created one !

Forget what I've written in my other mail, it's a problem of mkinitrd, 
which could be "solved" by pressing ctrl-d, when the system hangs. 
You could comment out this line (around 1770) in /sbin/mkinitrd and 
run mkinitrd again to correct the problem temporarily (until SuSE 
fixed the problem):

        |    echo "No root device found; exiting to /bin/sh"
        |    cd /
        |    #/bin/sh	# <<< comment out this line in this way

I just entered a bug report about this.

SW RAID is sometimes 'ne echte zicke, but never the less quite useful.

Hth,
Pete


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