Comment 62 for bug 33269
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| Kissell (jeremy-kissell) wrote Re: root filesystem fails to mount (sata_nv module is loaded) | #62 |
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okay, i had several things to blame when this problem occured... I was assuming it was related to the SATA RAID array, because when I unplug that array it boots just fine. But, the actual error gives a UUID of the IDE disk in my system. The UUID is correct for the boot partition, /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab match, and everything works fine if don't have the SATA drives plugged in. But, if I plug in the SATA drives, then it gets the intramfs prompt and hangs for at least an actual minute, probably more like three minutes. After it's done hanging, it displays a message about md0 being made active. Then I have to type anything on the keyboard and hit return and the system will continue booting normally.
My RAID-6 is made up of SATA disks, twelve 750GB disks, and totals 7501GB. I previously had to upgrade to mdadm v2.6.7 in hardy to allow me to grow/expand the array, to add more space without destroying it. My guess, is that in my particular problem, the system is for some reason needing the array to be active before it can see the boot partition.
I did want to fix this, and I had dual-boot with windows on this machine just in case I needed a windows machine I wanted to have one, even though I never use it... and I was reading that wubi seem linked to a similiar problem, so I did reformat this machine and installed hardy server 8.04, everything worked fine there, and then i installed the GUI because i couldn't figure out how to do a dist-upgrade without the gui, because intrepid is not a LTS release i had to turn it on in the gui, anyway, then i upgraded to intrepid, and this intramfs problem returned. So I can say in my instance, it has nothing to do with windows partitions, and nothing to do with any radical linux software betas i'd played around with on this machine, it has everything to do with the machine not being able to initially see the IDE disk if I have this other 7TB software partition plugged in at boot.
This is very annoying when i need to reboot, and somewhat scary, and i'm handing over administration of this box soon to a less technical person. So I hope this information can help someone figure out a solution. Let me know if you need me to try something or post some logs.