Bug#380272: kernel-image-2.6-686-smp: cpqarray module fails to detect arrays

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

hello joshua,

thanks for your repsonse.

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Joshua Rubin wrote:

> I installed this system with a sarge cd (2.6.8-386-2 kernel) and that has 
> cpqarray compiled as a module and works fine. As far as I can tell, the 
> problem only occurs with very recent 2.6 kernels >= 2.6.15.

we have success reports for ida, so basically initramfs-tools should do
it's job.
 
> /proc/cmdline:
> root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 ro
> (I have tried booting with all combinations of noprobe, noapic and noacpi too)

ok
 
> lsmod (no lsmod in the initramfs, so this is from the system running 2.6.8):

hmm forgot, the output of cat /proc/modules is more usefull to see
if ida is loaded and which other modules.
 
> ls -l /dev/ida:
> total 0
> brw-rw---- 1 0 0 72, 0  Jul 28 18:03 c0d0

that's really bad so udev only created the device for the controller,
but not for the partitions. if we don't get the root device, we can't
mount it.

could you check from the rescue console dmesg, if anything at the ida
registration hangs out? if you have a console full dmesg would be great.
 
so grub, initramfs-tools and udev seem up to date on your box.

-- 
maks