Hello Martin I added the rootdelay=20 on the cmdline and got the exact same results...
Now, I may not be using a "standard" setting. My bios does NOT allow me to boot on the SCSI device, it just provides the driver. So, to boot, I use kexec-loader or grub4dos. Grub4dos point to the menu.lst... Please note that there is another "special" when grub modifies the menu.lst it does NOT include an initrd line extract from menu.lst title Debian GNU/Linux, rootdelay=20 kernel 2.6.30-2-686 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 rootdelay=20 root=/dev/md0 ro quiet This gives me a kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0) title Debian GNU/Linux, rootdelay=20,initrd kernel 2.6.30-2-686 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-2-686 rootdelay=20 root=/dev/md0 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-2-686 I added an initrd line pointing to the generated initrd image. this gives me: Alert! /dev/md0 does not exist. dropping to a shell! If I use kexec-loader, the kexec-loader.conf reads: title 2.6.30 Generic Linux System root sda1 kernel /vmlinuz.30 cmdline rootdelay=20 root=/dev/md0 ro initrd /initrd.img.30 /vmlinuz.30 and /initrd.img.30 are symbolic link to the /boot/xxx2.6.30.2.686 This gives me the same Alert! /dev/md0 does not exist. dropping to a shell! I think that the raid drive is not known in the kernel, that the file needed to describe the raid device is not available in the RAM drive... Out of curiosity, what is exactly the rootdelay parameter for, if it is not for waiting that the root device is ready for access? Thanks for your interrest and regards. Louis richard 2010/1/23 martin f krafft <madd...@debian.org> > also sprach Louis Richard Pirlet <lrpir...@gmail.com> [2010.01.23.1002 > +1300]: > > To your first question, the answer is : No I did not try the > > rootdelay parameter. I am sure that the delay is big enough as > > I have no time to wait at that point when booting from kernel > > 2.6.26 and initrd.img-2.6.26-2.686 > > Try setting rootdelay=20 and try again. > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: > : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info > `. `'` > http://people.debian.org/~madduck<http://people.debian.org/%7Emadduck> > http://vcs-pkg.org > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems > > the english take english for granted. > but if we explore its paradoxes, > we find that quicksand can work slowly. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAktbcrEACgkQIgvIgzMMSnXi4gCeIdHcIHisA/oFoueoQ9Ufsxc3 > aQAAoJE2KVMMBDO4tt1fGASQOhKOe44x > =8Mlw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
