Kernel panic with hardware RAID

[Ryan Steele]

Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:32:05 -0500, Ryan Steele <ryans at aweber.com> said:
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>     >> 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.
I found the problem; the initrd didn't have all the necessary drivers 
for my card.  I ended up updating the initrd so that it included those 
drivers.  The error was definitely cryptic though... no mention anywhere 
that it was network related.  Thanks for putting eyes on it.

Ryan