From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754879AbcAHRl5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:41:57 -0500 Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:41936 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752069AbcAHRlz (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:41:55 -0500 To: "Luck\, Tony" Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-scsi\@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: System "hangs" on kernels > v4.4-rc1 - mpt2sas problem? From: "Martin K. Petersen" Organization: Oracle Corporation References: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA658E@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA727F@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA73FD@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 12:41:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3908561D78D1C84285E8C5FCA982C28F39FA73FD@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> (Tony Luck's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:32:50 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Source-IP: aserv0021.oracle.com [141.146.126.233] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tony" == Luck, Tony writes: Tony> The failure mode is very, very odd though. Shouldn't I have got a Tony> "can't mount root" error? The init stuff can be pretty patient when it comes to waiting for the root disk to materialize. It's conceivable that you would have gotten an error if you had waited long enough. Tony> /me goes to find how to tell Dracut to add the mpt3sas module to Tony> the initrd. Great! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering