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Bug#318326: marked as done (initrd-tools: System with 3ware 9500 fails to boot after clean Sarge install)

Your message dated Mon, 05 May 2008 10:23:24 +0200
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and subject line initrd-tools has been removed from Debian, closing #318326
has caused the Debian Bug report #318326,
regarding initrd-tools: System with 3ware 9500 fails to boot after clean Sarge install
to be marked as done.

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Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


The subject says it all. When you install Debian Sarge on a machine (Supermicro SuperServer) with a 3ware 9500 SATA (hardware) RAID controller, the installer detects the card fine. System gets installed on /dev/sdax without any problems, but at the reboot after the installation proces, it fails to boot. (hangs after "...savedefault\nboot")
I tried installing both the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel, nothing worked.

Google learned me this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/09/msg00254.html

"Yeah, from a shell on another console in debian-installer, I had to
manually add 3w_9xxx to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and run
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7-smp 2.6.8-1-k7-smp"

I tried this, booting the system with a live-cd an mounting /.
Adjusted the path for modules etc and after rebuilding the initrd, I was able to boot the server.
After that, I installed a new custom kernel with 3w_9xxx support an without initrd support (just to be sure ;-) and everything is working fine now. I guess this is some bug in the initrd-tools or initrd.img that gets installed with Sarge. I hope this can be fixed in 3.1r1.

lspci -v:
http://www.stroobant.be/lspci.txt

When you need more details or tests, just ask.

Luc

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Version: 0.1.84.2+rm

The initrd-tools package has been removed from Debian testing, unstable and
experimental, so I am now closing the bugs that were still opened
against it.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/393092 . That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed, and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.
-- 
Lucas

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