Problem with 3w-9xxx/booting

["Nico Bille" <nico@nibweb.net>]

Hello,

i tried to install debian with the debian-installer rc2, 07-10-2004 and
09-10-2004. (I hope i can try with rc1 or so tomorrow.)

I had to install with the 2.6 kernel, because the 3w-9xxx is not in the
2.4. The Controller (3ware 9500S-8) is detected and the module is loaded
fine. I can make partitions and all, the installation goes through without
problems, the installer will boot into the new system.

When it boots the ramdisk is loaded and now only some things are loaded,
then it will make pivot_root and the error attempt to kill init occurs.
I think the problem is, that in the loadmodules of the ramdisk there are
no entrys about the 3w-9xxx module oder the ethernet module.

Here the contents of the file:

modprobe -k  vesafb > /dev/null 2>&1
modprobe -k  fbcon 2> /dev/null
modprobe -k  unix 2> /dev/null
modprobe -k  sd_mod

I thought the module is not included in the ramdisk, but all modules are
availible.

Here is the output of lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge (rev 32)
0000:00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCNB-LE Host Bridge
0000:00:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
0000:00:0f.2 USB Controller: ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller
(rev 05)
0000:00:0f.3 Host bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 LPC bridge
0000:00:10.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 05)
0000:00:10.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 05)
0000:01:03.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware ATA-RAID
0000:02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Copper) (rev 01)

The controller is as said before a 3Ware 9500S-8 with 8 250GB Maxtor disks
attached, the board is Tyan S2707 with 2x GBit Lan on board.

I hope i provided enough helpful information, if not let me know. Let me
also know if I could describe things better.

I don't know if my problem legitimates a bugreport.

Greets


   Nico Bille