Bug#528351: debian-installer: cannot find disk drives
Hello,
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:50 AM, BranchingFactor
<branchingfactor@yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
> Our Opteron server with LSI SAS 1068 controller and 2 SAS drives has
> been running amd64 etch for two years without any problems. Last week
> we attempted to upgrade the system from etch to lenny (stable) and
> after the upgrade the system could not find the disk drives and so the
> boot failed. Next I tried to install the current lenny 5.01 stable
> amd64-netinst from scratch and it halted during the installation being
> unable to find any disk drives. I tried choosing each of the mpt
> drivers manually (including the obvious candidate mptsas) but it
> didn't help.
>
> Subsequently I tried the latest 05/11/09 squeeze amd64-netinst and the
> debian-installer detected both drives without any problems.
> Unfortunately after reboot this squeeze installation failed to detect
> the disk drives so the machine was unusable with squeeze.
I belive it is due a bug in kernel; could you try to boot using sid
kernel? This is the same kernel used in daily images that has detected
your disks properly.
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