[ag-automation] Booting fails with 2.6.21.6-rt21

[Carsten Emde]

Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:00:57AM +0100, 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.
>> Is this the right mailing list for this problem?
Yes, sure.

> Please update to 2.6.23.1-rt11 or 2.6.24-rc2-rt1 first and try to
> reproduce it on that kernel version.
I'm not so sure. We decided to declare kernel 2.6.21.6-rt21 as "Latest 
Stable" automation kernel. In consequence, we will need to take care 
that this one works wherever needed, unless a better and newer one is 
available.

	--cbe