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Re: initrd and 3Ware 9550SX



On Friday 03 February 2006 22:52, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> I've successfully installed the latest Debian Testing (AMD64)
> netinstall on a 2U server Dual Xeon/E7320 Chipset with an 8 Port
> AMCC/3Ware 9550SX SATA RAID controller (with BBU).
>
> However on boot, there is a "pivot-root" error, which I presume means
> the disks can't be found. I assume this is because the intrd image does
> not contain the necessary 9550SX module, even though this was found on
> install?

Could be, but not the most likely cause. The actual reason depends very 
much on which image you used to install: Beta1 or a daily build.

If you used a daily build, see #351115 [1].

If you used beta1 and the kernel recognizes multiple disk controllers in 
your system, the reason may be that the order in which devices are loaded 
has changed.

Check the boot messages on the console to see if the SATA controller was 
recognized and, if so, which device it was assigned to. This needs to 
correspond to both your boot loader configuration and the entries in
/etc/fstab.

You provide very little real information for better guesses. Please 
consider filing a full installation report [2] next time.

[1] http://www.bugs.debian.org/351115
[2] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug

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