Kernel panic with hardware RAID

[Ryan Steele]

Ryan Steele wrote:
> 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.
> 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
Err, I left out a key word there.  For my *network* card.

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