Bug#528351: d-i doesn't see disk on Dell R410 with PERC/6i SAS RAID controller - LSI SAS1068E
I am seeing similar behaviour on a Dell R410 with Perc 6/i RAID
controller. I have used the daily d-i build over PXE - it is using
kernel 2.6.29-2-amd64.
The install progresses fine until the "Detect Disks" part comes along.
It then claims it cannot find the disks.
However, if I break out into a shell and have a look, I can see in the
dmesg output that the device is working. I have even been able to use
fdisk to partition the disk and tried cheating by manualling
partitioning, mkfs-ing and mounting the disk on /target. The mptsas
driver appears to be talking to the controller just fine.
Sadly, I can't copy and paste output from this box.
If there's a way to convince the installer that I have partitioned and
mounted the disks and let me carry on, that would get past the immediate
problem. I am quite happy to try other things out if you need more
information back.
Andrew
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