Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:14:05PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Andi, any thoughts about how to debug the suse boot sequence?

Hmm, you could add a set -x into the startup script /sbin/mkinitrd
generates. But some work also happens with udev in the background.

Or let's ask Olaf, he's the expert on that

-Andi