Kernel panic with hardware RAID

[Michael Tautschnig]

> 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.
>

Oh well, so this was actually not related to the missing partition tables at
all? That just means it can't boot off of NFS, and thus panics?

Best,
Michael

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