[systemd-devel] kernel failing to boot

[Nathan]

Hello,

I am experimenting with systemd on redhat 6.

I have built 2 custom kernels:
   1. one is essentially a desktop kernel (essentially a fedora kernel)
   2. one is a stripped down kernel with many things removed.

on a normal redhat 6 box both of these kernels work without issue.

on my test systemd boxes only the desktop version is working, it fails
with the following, and drops to a shell:

Please see below for relevant outputs.

My question is what kernel options are explicitly needed for systemd

if needed i can supply my kernel configs as well.

version systemd-36


dmesg output:
working:
systemdtest:~# dmesg  | grep -i dracu
[    6.111144] dracut: dracut-013-22.el6
[    6.148397] dracut: rd.luks=0: removing cryptoluks activation
[    7.458288] dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
[    7.814958] dracut: rd.dm=0: removing DM RAID activation
[    7.852792] dracut: rd.md=0: removing MD RAID activation
[   11.454285] dracut: Scanning devices sdb3  for LVM logical volumes 
system/root system/swap
[   11.543679] dracut: inactive '/dev/system/root' [20.00 GiB] inherit
[   11.564705] dracut: inactive '/dev/system/root2' [12.00 GiB] inherit
[   11.585515] dracut: inactive '/dev/system/swap' [12.00 GiB] inherit
[   11.606317] dracut: inactive '/dev/system/data' [186.22 GiB] inherit

failing:
[    3.864155] dracut: dracut-013-22.el6
[    3.881733] dracut: rd.luks=0: removing cryptoluks activation
[    4.079599] dracut: Starting plymouth daemon
[    4.121899] dracut: rd.dm=0: removing DM RAID activation
[    4.138556] dracut: rd.md=0: removing MD RAID activation
[    5.070487] dracut: Scanning devices sda3  for LVM logical volumes 
system/root system/swap
[    5.090065] dracut: No volume groups found
[    5.101437] dracut: Volume group "system" not found
[    5.111328] dracut: Skipping volume group system
[   16.153377] dracut: Scanning devices sda3  for LVM logical volumes 
system/root system/swap
[   16.172965] dracut: No volume groups found
[   16.184088] dracut: Partial mode. Incomplete logical volumes will be 
processed.
[   16.198914] dracut: Volume group "system" not found
[   16.208800] dracut: Skipping volume group system
[   37.258941] dracut Warning: No root device 
"block:/dev/mapper/system-root" found
dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/mapper/system-root" found



grub cmdlines:
working:
kernel /vmlinuz-3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.12.zmj.desktop.el6.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/system-root rd_LVM_LV=system/root rd_LVM_LV=system/swap 
rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto crashkernel=auto 
console=tty0 console=ttyS1,57600

failing: 	
kernel /vmlinuz3.3.0-0.rc3.git5.35.zmj.performance.el6.x86_64 ro 
root=/dev/mapper/system-root rd_LVM_LV=system/root rd_LVM_LV=system/swap 
rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us crashkernel=auto crashkernel=auto 
console=tty0 console=ttyS1,57600