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Bug#384437: marked as done (Installation report from Dell PowerEdge 2950)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:17 +0000
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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: etch debian installer beta 3 (netboot)
Image version: beta 3
Date: 2006.08.23

Machine: Dell PowerEdge 2950
Processor: Dual dual-core Xeon 3.2Ghz
Memory: 8 Gb

Partitions:
Filesystem    Type     1K-blocks     Used  Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1     ext3        60185     11348      45626  20% /boot
/dev/sda2     ext3      9614148    583276    8542496   7% /
tmpfs         tmpfs     4090208         0    4090208   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs         tmpfs       10240       112      10128   2% /dev


Output of lspci and lspci -n:

juno:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Workstation Memory Controller Hub (rev 12)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 3 (rev 12)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x8 Port 4-5 (rev 12)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 5 (rev 12)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x8 Port 6-7 (rev 12)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Server PCI Express x4 Port 7 (rev 12)
00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server Error Reporting Registers (rev 12)
00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Reserved Registers (rev 12)
00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Reserved Registers (rev 12)
00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server FBD Registers (rev 12)
00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Server FBD Registers (rev 12)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #1 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #2 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge UHCI USB #3 (rev 09)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge EHCI USB (rev 09)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d9)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge LPC (rev 09)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PATA (rev 09)
01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-A PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
01:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80333 Segment-B PCI Express-to-PCI Express Bridge
02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID controller 5
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Unknown device 0103 (rev c2)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)
06:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Upstream Port (rev 01)
06:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express to PCI-X Bridge (rev 01)
07:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Downstream Port E1 (rev 01)
07:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Enterprise Southbridge PCI Express Downstream Port E2 (rev 01)
08:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Unknown device 0103 (rev c2)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)
0e:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)
0e:00.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6700PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge B (rev 09)
12:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)

juno:~# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:25c0 (rev 12)
00:02.0 0604: 8086:25e2 (rev 12)
00:03.0 0604: 8086:25e3 (rev 12)
00:04.0 0604: 8086:25f8 (rev 12)
00:05.0 0604: 8086:25e5 (rev 12)
00:06.0 0604: 8086:25f9 (rev 12)
00:07.0 0604: 8086:25e7 (rev 12)
00:10.0 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)
00:10.1 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)
00:10.2 0600: 8086:25f0 (rev 12)
00:11.0 0600: 8086:25f1 (rev 12)
00:13.0 0600: 8086:25f3 (rev 12)
00:15.0 0600: 8086:25f5 (rev 12)
00:16.0 0600: 8086:25f6 (rev 12)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:2690 (rev 09)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2688 (rev 09)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2689 (rev 09)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:268a (rev 09)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:268c (rev 09)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev d9)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2670 (rev 09)
00:1f.1 0101: 8086:269e (rev 09)
01:00.0 0604: 8086:0370
01:00.2 0604: 8086:0372
02:0e.0 0104: 1028:0015
04:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c2)
05:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 11)
06:00.0 0604: 8086:3500 (rev 01)
06:00.3 0604: 8086:350c (rev 01)
07:00.0 0604: 8086:3510 (rev 01)
07:01.0 0604: 8086:3514 (rev 01)
08:00.0 0604: 1166:0103 (rev c2)
09:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 11)
0e:00.0 0604: 8086:0329 (rev 09)
0e:00.2 0604: 8086:032a (rev 09)
12:0d.0 0300: 1002:515e (rev 02)


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [O]
Config network:         [O]
Detect CD:              [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Create file systems:    [O]
Mount partitions:       [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Reboot:                 [E]

Comments/Problems:

The server has a DRAC (Dell Remote Access Card) which allows the remote administration
of the system and which provides virtual floppy and cd-rom drives. One of them (I suppose
the cd-rom one) is supported as removable scsi device.

The two SCSI disks are configured in RAID-1 with a SCSI RAID controller which requires the
metaraid_sas module. 

In the first part of the installation, this module wasn't loaded so the removable SCSI
device was /dev/sda and the SCSI disks weren't accessible. After the "Detect hard drives"
phase, the megaraid_sas module was loaded and the RAID-1 disk were detected as /dev/sdb.

After the first reboot, the machine failed to start:

1. The initrd didn't load the megeraid_sas module, so the disk wasn't detected.

2. After booting in rescue mode, adding megaraid_sas to the list of modules to load
   (/etc/initramfs-tools/modules) and run update-initramfs, the problem was that
   megaraid_sas was loaded before the removable SCSI module so the RAID disk was
   detected as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb.

3. After booting again in rescue mode and changing /etc/fstab to match /dev/sda,
   the system went up.

I wonder why the installer doesn't add megaraid_sas to the list of additional modules
for initramfs if it uses that module to detect the disks? And, in any case, this will
change the order of the disk devices depending on the order with the modules are loaded.

Thanks,

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Fabio Tranchitella <kobold@debian.org>                        .''`.
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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
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