[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#812327: xen: initrd booting with xen don't find any harddisks

[Markus Schraeder]

Package: xen-system-amd64
Version: 4.6.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I installed fresh from ALPHA5, no UEFI, with two disks. Each disk
got a partition for /boot and one for /, joined each by RAID 1.

Then I just installed "xen-system-amd64", nothing more. After
rebooting, selecting on grub to boot XEN, it hangs on

  mdadm: no devices listed in conf file were found

. I reproduced this on a different machine, and there is the same case.

In initrd you can see that it just do not have any /dev/sd* or
/dev/hd*. So it is clear why it cannot find the arrays.

Why does the kernel not find any disks booting via XEN? If you select
in grub the entry without xen, it just finds its discs and boots fine...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages xen-system-amd64 depends on:
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.6-amd64  4.6.0-1
ii  xen-utils-4.6             4.6.0-1

xen-system-amd64 recommends no packages.

xen-system-amd64 suggests no packages.

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