[Bug 706553] Re: geninitrd fails if softraid partition (mdXpY) used as rootfs

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

Publish initrd somewhere or linuxrc and /etc/mdadm.conf contents from
that initrd.

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Title:
  geninitrd fails if softraid partition (mdXpY) used as rootfs

Status in PLD Linux Distribution:
  New

Bug description:
  I get "ERROR: RAID devices not found for "/dev/md0p1", check your configuration!" if softraid partition (mdXpY) is used as rootfs:
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  # geninitrd -v -f foo 2.36.2-1
  geninitrd: # $Revision: 12044 $ $Date: 2011-01-13 21:20:40 +0100 (czw) $
  geninitrd: Using _lib: lib64
  geninitrd: Using initrd_dir: /usr/lib64/initrd
  geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/busybox
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/cryptsetup /sbin/cryptsetup-initrd
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/dmraid /sbin/dmraid-initrd
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/lvm /sbin/initrd-lvm
  geninitrd: find_tool: found /usr/lib64/initrd/mdassemble
  geninitrd: find_tool: found /sbin/mdadm
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/blkid /sbin/initrd-blkid
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/udevd /sbin/initrd-udevd
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/udevadm /sbin/initrd-udevadm
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/resume /usr/lib64/suspend/resume /usr/sbin/resume
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/sbin/splash_geninitramfs /usr/bin/splash_geninitramfs
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/sbin/splash_geninitramfs /usr/bin/splash_geninitramfs
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /bin/splash.bin
  geninitrd: find_tool: did not found any of: /usr/lib64/initrd/v86d /sbin/v86d
  geninitrd: Using modprobe -c to get modules config
  geninitrd: Finding SATA modules
  geninitrd: Using /dev/md0p1 as device for rootfs
  geninitrd: Finding modules for device path /dev/md0p1
  geninitrd: Finding RAID details using mdadm for rootdev=/dev/md0p1
  geninitrd: ERROR: RAID devices not found for "/dev/md0p1", check your configuration!
  ------------------------------------

  my fstab:
  ------------------------------------
  /dev/md0p1	/	ext2	defaults	0 1
  /dev/md0p2	swap	swap	defaults	0 0

  none		/proc			proc	defaults,noauto,gid=17	0 0
  none		/sys			sysfs	defaults,noauto,gid=17	0 0
  none		/proc/bus/usb		usbfs	defaults,noauto,devgid=78,devmode=0664	0 0
  none		/dev/pts		devpts	gid=5,mode=620		0 0
  none		/dev/cpuset		cpuset	defaults,noauto		0 0
  ------------------------------------

  mdadm.conf
  ------------------------------------
  #MAILADDR root at mydomain.tld
  #PROGRAM /usr/sbin/handle-mdadm-events
  ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=0.90 UUID=9fec8181:43018b3d:776c2c25:004bd7b2
  ------------------------------------

  mdadm output:
  ------------------------------------
  # mdadm -v --detail --scan
  ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=3 metadata=0.90 UUID=9fec8181:43018b3d:776c2c25:004bd7b2
     devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1
  ------------------------------------

  versions:
  - geninitrd: 10000.32-1 and 10000.20-5
  - arch: x86_64
  - mdadm: 3.1.2
  - kernel: 2.36.2-1