On Saturday, September 11, 2021, 9:58:20 PM GMT+3, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> wrote:
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
Control: severity -1 important
Hi Nikolay,
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 01:55:43AM +0300, Nikolay Zaynelov wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.10.46-4
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> X-Debbugs-Cc:
mravunko@yahoo.com>
> Dear Maintainer,
> * What led up to the situation?
> I upgraded Dell R430 server from Buster to Bullseye. It has standard RAID1 configuration with two SAS disks.
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
> I updated the server and after the upgrade process finished the server did not boot properly in kernel 5.10.
> I found that there is an error regarding missing hard disk drive. I supposed that the problem maybe the kernel
> driver for megaraid_sas.ko. I booted the installation media via the iDRAC interface and started system rescue.
> The Debian 11.0 (netinstall) media did not find the hard disk and could not mount the root partition. So I
> booted Debian 10.7 (netinstall) in rescue mode and I was able to see the disks and to choose the right root
> partition.
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> I found that the problem is in the new kernel 5.10 so I modified the /etc/default/grub file in order to boot the
> old kernel by default.
Upstream report
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214311suggests that this is dependent on if you are booting with legancy
BIOS or UEFI.
Can you confirm that?
Regards,
Salvatore