CentOS - Jan 2013 - intel_iommu=on => No root device found

Hi all,

for some reaseon, my message wasn't published. Second try, this time without
the giant attachment.

I have an Intel server (SR2600URBRPR) in front of me. The disks in my server are
connected via PCI card (Adaptec RAID 3405).

Now I would like to passthrough a PCI-E graphics card to a KVM guest. As this
requires Intel VT-d, I configured the following options in the BIOS:

Intel VT for Directed I/O  [Enabled]
 Interrupt Remapping       [Enabled]
 Coherency Support         [Disabled]
 ATS Support               [Enabled]
 Pass-through DMA Support  [Enabled]

Everything works so far, but when I add intel_iommu=on to the kernel line of my
grub.conf, Dracut gives my a kernel panic while booting. I added
"rdshell" to the command line and extracted the boot messages via
dmesg (http://nilscaspar.ch/centos-dmesg.log). I think the main problem is this:

dracut Warning: No root device
"block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/280234d1-dff5-4e04-b1ef-93d54cdcd825" found

But I doesn't make sense to me... As soon as I remove intel_iommu=on,
everything works again (except the passthrough :P).

Regards,
Nils

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nilscaspar.ch

On 01/29/2013 01:16 PM, Nils Caspar wrote:
> Everything works so far, but when I add intel_iommu=on to the kernel
> line of my grub.conf, Dracut gives my a kernel panic while booting. I
> added "rdshell" to the command line and extracted the boot
messages
> via dmesg (http://nilscaspar.ch/centos-dmesg.log).
Similar behavior has been diagnosed as a hardware bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605888

Boot the system with the IOMMU off and find out what PCI device is at 
05:01.0 using lspci.  Assuming that it's not critical, try disabling or 
removing that component.