Initramfs fails to boot from SCSI in VM with lsilogic controller and >3 GB RAM

Hi,

I’m trying to get Alpine 3.7 (virthardened) to run in VM on VMWare Workstation 14.1. The Alpine VM is set to boot from LVM but whenever I set more than 3 GB memory, initramfs on first boot after the installation fails with

mount: mounting /dev/vg0/lv_root on /sysroot failed: No such file or directory
Mounting root failed.
initramfs emergency recovery shell launched. Type 'exit' to continue boot
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

When I activate and mount the volumes manually in initramfs shell, the VM eventually starts.

lvm vgchange -ay
mount -t ext4 /dev/vg0/lv_root /sysroot
mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /sysroot/boot
exit

Whenever I set the RAM to 3 GB or less, the VM happily boots without any problems or interruptions.

/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf:

features="ata base ide scsi usb virtio ext4 lvm"

Relevant lines from /boot/extlinux.conf:

LINUX vmlinuz-virthardened
INITRD initramfs-virthardened
APPEND root=/dev/vg0/lv_root modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 pax_nouderef quiet rootfstype=ext4

Attached is the output from “nlplug-findfs -d -p /sbin/mdev /dev/vg0/lv_root >& nlplug-findfs.log”

(from redmine: issue id 8476, created on 2018-02-06)

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