From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758392AbXGEINs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:13:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756886AbXGEINi (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:13:38 -0400 Received: from mail02.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.62]:48829 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752419AbXGEINh (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:13:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1253 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:13:36 EDT Message-ID: <468CA340.2060300@edict.de> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:52:32 +0200 From: Ingo Freund Organization: e-dict GmbH & Co. KG User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: md device files missing at boot time X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi folks, I can temporarily only read your answers in archives. Thank you for your reaction. It would be nice, to send responses directly to me too: "linux-kernel-news at e-dict". Hopefully this answer doesn't break the thread. If it does: sorry for it, there were some mail mail problems which stopped our server receiving mails from this list and now the list stopped sending mails to me :-) @Kay How did you build the initramfs image? /sbin/mkinitrd? Did you add md support to the image? Both "Yes". included modules are (in opensuses /etc/sysconfig/kernel: INITRD_MODULES="raid1 md reiserfs sym53c8xx pata_serverworks edd" @J.A. Magallon yes the partitions in question are all typed "fd" neither all-drivers-compiled-into-the-kernel nor the module using version work. The only difference I find is the exit to an emergency shell when using modules via initrd while the "only kernel version" stops commentless when it is time to use /dev/md0 for the first time. "dmesg" is not found after exiting to the shell. I can only post the content of a log file which was written into the initramfs (which seems to be also a trace of the in and output of the emergency console). Content of the log file (/var/log/boot.msg): Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Thu Jul 5 06:36:35 2007 Creating device nodes with udev Loading md-mod Loading raid1 Loading sym53c8xx Loading libata Loading pata_serverworks Loading edd Loading reiserfs Waiting for device /dev/md0 to appear: ..............................not found -- exiting to /bin/sh sh: no job control in this shell $ dmesg sh: dmesg: command not found $ fdisk sh: fdisk: command not found $ ls /bin bash cat chmod date ipconfig.sh ln ls mkdir mknod mount pidof rm run-init sed sh sleep true umount ... Question: is the order "creating dev nodes with udev" and after that "loading the modules" correct? Thanks - Ingo.