From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932685AbcAHScO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:32:14 -0500 Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:44028 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932460AbcAHScK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:32:10 -0500 Message-ID: <1452277927.2297.2.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Subject: Re: System "hangs" on kernels > v4.4-rc1 - mpt2sas problem? From: James Bottomley To: "Luck, Tony" , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 10:32:07 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA77D9@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA658E@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA727F@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA73FD@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA77D9@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 18:23 +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Tony> /me goes to find how to tell Dracut to add the mpt3sas module > > to > > Tony> the initrd. > > > > Great! > > /etc/dracut.conf > add_drivers+="mpt3sas" > > and now my system boots. > > Thanks again for the help. We're not quite out of the woods yet: dracut should have seen this automatically because of the module alias bindings. Is your system somehow unusual and you don't expect the initrd automatic module selection to work? If not, could you help us debug why it didn't? Thanks, James