Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! after installation of Driver Diskette for enabling Onboard RAID Controller Chipset
Hi,
I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS. Have created driver diskette using dd command to enable this controller card to the CentOS 5.6 x86_64 arch and it shows HP LOGICAL VOLUME of size 940 GB by the Anaconda installer to load CentOS 5.6 on these server.
Below are the steps to enable driver diskette from HP (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swI...)
gunzip hpahcisr-1.2.6-7.rhel5.x86_64.dd.gz dd if=hpahcisr-1.2.6-7.rhel5.x86_64.dd of=/dev/sdb (USB Flash Drive)
CentOS 5.6 Installation Procedure :- Boot up the System using DVD containing CentOS 5.6 and type linux dd blacklist=ahci and then it asks for load driver diskette and then point it to the USB Flash Drive which contains the SATA Controller driver image. The driver gets loaded during the installation and after OS Installation is complete and then reboot it fails and says "Error 21: Selected disk does not exist" and when i edit grub grub> root (hd0,0) and press b to boot it works fine and later I get the below message on the Console with Kernel Panic.
Mounting root filesystem. mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Switching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Am i missing anything? Please suggest/guide.
Regards,
Kaushal
On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.
the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel "Matrix" fake raid. The hardware is purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid behind the systems back.
Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid. See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.
the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel "Matrix" fake raid. The hardware is purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid behind the systems back.
Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid. See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29
-- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi Again,
I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.
device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941 Waiting for driver initialization Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2) Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;"1iZ) Creating root device. Hounting root filesystem. EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 296 not in group (block 231211688)! EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted! mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Suitching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushal
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 07/14/11 10:56 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS.
the SmartArray 110i is simply Intel "Matrix" fake raid. The hardware is purely basic plain SATA JBOD, but the BIOS and driver implement the raid behind the systems back.
Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid. See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29
-- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi Again,
I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.
device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941 Waiting for driver initialization Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2) Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;"1iZ) Creating root device. Hounting root filesystem. EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 296 not in group (block 231211688)! EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted! mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Suitching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushal
Hi Again,
I have read this on the forums and it explained as below.
Probably need to get that module into your initrd. The computer, upon booting, loads a kernel image and an initial ramdisk. the latter is a compressed filesystem image that the bootloader just maps into memory, and it holds a number of kernel modules and helper programs for the kernel you are booting. if it does not contain the kernel module that's driving your RAID controller, the kernel won't ever be able to recognize your disk array, because it lacks the proper driver for it that's why the initrd's helper programs are panicking - they are trying to mount a crucial filesystem from a device which just isn't there it cannot continue, and bails with a big, fat error
Somehow need to include the driver you loaded from the USB thumb drive during installation during booting your system (most probably from within the initrd) . probably need to get that module into the initrd.
Please guide/suggest further.
Regards,
Kaushal
Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:47 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
Configure the BIOS for AHCI native SATA, and use linux native raid. See http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5?highlight=%28RAID%29
Hi Again,
I did some changes, i just created two partitions / and swap using the Anaconda Installer, it worked fine after loading boot loader GRUB and then after it stopped at Kernel Panic.
device—mapper: dm—raid15: initialized v0.25941 Waiting for driver initialization Scanning and configuring dnraid supported devices Trying to resume from (LABEL=SWAP-sda2) Unable to access resume device (L‘*wmVgW_¢;"1iZ) Creating root device. Hounting root filesystem. EXT3—fs error (device sdc1) : ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 296 not in group (block 231211688)! EXT3~fs1 group descriptors corrupted! mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument Setting up other filesystems. Setting up new root fs setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory Suitching to new root and running init. unmounting old /dev unmounting old /proc unmounting old /sys suitchrootr mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic — not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Please suggest further. is there a way to create customized initrd for this default kernel available on CentOS 5.6
Thanks and Regards,
Kaushal
Hi Again,
I have read this on the forums and it explained as below.
Probably need to get that module into your initrd. The computer, upon booting, loads a kernel image and an initial ramdisk. the latter is a compressed filesystem image that the bootloader just maps into memory, and it holds a number of kernel modules and helper programs for the kernel you are booting. if it does not contain the kernel module that's driving your RAID controller, the kernel won't ever be able to recognize your disk array, because it lacks the proper driver for it that's why the initrd's helper programs are panicking - they are trying to mount a crucial filesystem from a device which just isn't there it cannot continue, and bails with a big, fat error
Somehow need to include the driver you loaded from the USB thumb drive during installation during booting your system (most probably from within the initrd) . probably need to get that module into the initrd.
Please guide/suggest further.
You were suggested to use SOFTWARE LINUX RAID = mdraid, not to attempt to install driver for your RAID.
1. Have you set your RAID controller to AHCI mode?
2. Have you created Software RAID partitions and then created EXT4 partitions on top of the Software RAID (mdraid)?
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