On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:36:10 +0100 Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20/12/2007 Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > > > The system then reports on megaraid logical disks (appearing as > > > > sda, sdb) and then hangs (but responds to keyboard and reboots > > > > with Ctrl-Alt-Del) > > > > > > Maks: if the disks do appear later, wouldn't that indicate a bug > > > in udevsettle returning before the RAID card is done initalizing > > > (or a bug in the driver for the card...perhaps it should support > > > scsi_wait)? I'm not sure what cryptsetup should/could do about it. > > > > > > Daniel: a workaround you might want to try is to boot with the > > > "rootdelay" option, for example "rootdelay=10" should give your > > > card 10 seconds to catch up before cryptsetup and the other > > > scripts are executed. > > > > > > > That workaround does in fact work. That is, with rootdelay=10 I am > > able to boot the system. > > so is there anything left to do in the cryptsetup package? if not, > i'll close the bugreport. any objections? Nothing left for cryptsetup but perhaps it should be reassigned to the kernel (since it is a driver issue)? -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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