Kernel panic with hardware RAID

Ryan Steele ryans at aweber.com
Tue Nov 4 14:28:23 CET 2008


Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:32:05 -0500, Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> said:
>>>>>>             
>
>     >> I'm using FAI 3.2.14 on my Ubuntu systems (booting the 2.6.24-21 
>     >> kernel), and it all seems to work, except when I have a hardware RAID 
>     > [   81.860291] sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>     > [   82.021455] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
>     > [   82.085003] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
>     > [   82.384012] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> Hmm. It may be a kernel bug. Add the option debug to the kernel
> commands line, this may give you more output from the initrd. But if
> it's the kernel panics before the initrd is startet you have no chance
> to debug this. Than it's a problem of the kernel.
>   

This was with debug on, unfortunately.  I'm going to rebuild my FAI 
setup from scratch, hoping that maybe I zigged where I should have 
zagged at some point during the setup.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for your input,
Ryan


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