linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure

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Message-ID: <20070724091018.GA26724@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:10:18 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, andi@...stfloor.org,
	nix.or.die@...glemail.com, olh@...e.de
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-git17 boot failure


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
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