Pau Peris <sibok1981@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>i'm running GNU/Gentoo Linux with a custom compiled kernel and i've
>just
>migrated from a 2.6 kernel to a 3.5.
>
>
>As my HD's are on raid 0 mode i use a custom initrd file in order to be
>able to boot. While kernel 2.6 is able to boot without problems the new
>3.5
>compiled kernel fails to boot complaining about "no block devices
>found".
>After taking a look at initrd.cpio contained scripts i can see the
>failure
>message is given by mdadm tool.
>
>
>Does anyone has a clue about that? Thansk in advanced. :)

Paul,

I had a similar issue with a new system. There it was caused by mdadm trying to start the raid devices before all the drives were identified.
Try disabling "Asynchronous SCSI scanning" in the kernel config. (CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC)
Or add "scsi_mod.scan=sync" to the kernel commandline to see if it's the same cause.

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