[ag-automation] Booting fails with 2.6.21.6-rt21

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, M.Voss at wzl.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
> I have a running openSuSE 10.3 with original Kernel 2.6.22.12.
> 
> I compiled a new kernel (2.6.21.6) patched with the RT-Preempt patch 
> according to the Installation How-To an the OSADL-website. Everything 
> worked fine. Even a correct entry within the GRUB bootmanager has been 
> generated. 
> 
> But when I now try to boot the new kernel it seems to have problems with 
> the hard disk. I get the following message:
> 
> "Waiting for device 
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi_SATA_Maxtor_33073H3_L3HC4GBC-part2 to appear 
> ...................................
>  could not find scsi_SATA_Maxtor_33073H3_L3HC4GBC-part2"
> 
> After that message I get a question I can answer Y/N... whatever I type, 
> the booting stops and I end up in a shell.

Hmm. Looks like the symbolic link is missing or incorrect.

Can you please provide the output of: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ 
for a working and a non working kernel ?

Thanks,

	tglx