Comment 5 for bug 27187

The scsi vmware scsi device id is 0x1000/0x0030 mapping to the mptspi driver.

I managed to get it boot without error by adding mptspi AND sd_mod to
/etc/mkinitramfs/modules

I am wondering if this is not the same problem that was solved on Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341162