Bug#528351: debian-installer: cannot find disk drives
Thank you for the quick reply. When I installed the 11 May 2009 squeeze amd64-netinst with kernel 2.6.26-2, the installer worked perfectly all the way through to reboot but when I ejected the cdrom and rebooted, the installation could not find the disk drives on the reboot. cat /proc/modules shows that all the mpt modules are loaded, so something funny is going on.
P.S. I'd be somewhat surprised if it was kernel because I was able to upgrade etch to the latest kernel without any problems (i.e., right before I upgraded from etch to lenny). My problems started when I upgraded from etch to lenny.
--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
> Subject: Re: Bug#528351: debian-installer: cannot find disk drives
> To: "BranchingFactor" <branchingfactor@yahoo.com>, 528351@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:38 AM
> 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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