Bug#526525: a problem with mptbase or bnx2 (was: Bug#526525: Kernel linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 does not see) root RAID device /dev/md0
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Tony Godshall <togo@of.net> wrote:
> [me]
> ...
>>> Perhaps if I could figure out how to grab the dmesg output from
>>> initramfs environment, I could then compare the amd64 kernel
>>> output to the 686-bigmem kernel output... :-/
>
> [martin f krafft]
>> Append 'break=bottom debug' to the kernel line and at the shell do
>> something like
...
> [http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug]
>> If that does not work, use a USB stick: plug it in, observe the kernel output, mkdir /mnt, mount the device node there, and write to the flash drive. Remember to umount before pulling out the stick.
[me]
> No luck. I plugged in a USB stick and now the screen and keyboard are frozen.
Reboot with USB stick plugged in: now I get a long pause immediately
after "md: raid1 personality registered for level 1"
I look in dmesg for a usb-storage device: nothing. I look for
/dev/sd[a-z]*: nothing
So I can't mount the memory stick to capture dmesg output and I cant
put it to the hard drive.
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