Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

[Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge schrieb:
> Well, it looks to me like it all falls over once it hits usermode;
> everything up till then is identical (except for the Xen-related
> initcalls which naturally don't exist in the non-Xen case).

Just a wild thought: could the actual problem be with accessing the
initrd? After all, everything that's failing is based on modules
which are stuffed there. But I know far too less about initrd to
pursue this thought further.

> I'm at a loss.  I don't know if there's some way to debug the initrd in
> more detail.  I suspect that its failing all PCI probing, rather being a
> specific SCSI/AHCI problem (since none of the other messages appear either).
> 
> Does the Xen case just hang, or reboot, or what?  The kernel messages
> just appear to stop.  I'd expect it to at least complain about not
> mounting the root filesystem or something.

Yes, of course. Sorry, I thought I'd mentioned that. It shows the
standard behaviour of a Suse that cannot mount its root filesystem:
first a message: "waiting for /dev/system/root to appear" followed
by a series of dots, and then fallback into a standalone /bin/sh.

> Andi, any thoughts about how to debug the suse boot sequence?
> 
>     J

<listening eagerly>

T.

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