Re: SPARC SunBlade 2000 fails to find disks: ql2200_fw.bin not found, "Firmware image unavailable." (kernel 2.6.26, Debian lenny)

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 06:40:32AM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> Op Wed  3 Feb 2010 om 11:08:44 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal:
> > Op Wed  3 Feb 2010 om 09:52:57 +0000 schreef Jurij Smakov:
> > > Do you see the firmware on the initrd after it drops you into the 
> > > initrd shell?
> > 
> > Can't check now: just found out my USB keyboard is not working in this shell.
> > I'll reboot tomorrow with an old school VT terminal, or try to rebuild the
> > initrd with usb-support.
> 
> Yes, I see it:
> 
>  (initramfs) ls lib/firmware
>  ql2100_fw.bin ql2300_fw.bin ql2400_fw.bin
>  ql2200_fw.bin ql2322_fw.bin ql2500_fw.bin
> 
> > > If it's there, what happens if you remove the module and 
> > > then  reload it:
> > > 
> > > modprobe -r qla2xxx
> > > modprobe qla2xxx
> 
> This works!
> 
>  [...] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
>  ...
>  [...] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
> 
> However, after disks have been detected, I get:
> 
>  (initramfs) exit
>  Begin: Running scripts/local-premount ... done
>  mount: mounting /dev/sdb1 on /root failed: No such device

Yeah, unfortunately, this is expected. I think that the root device 
setting comes from /etc/silo.conf, change it there, then run 'silo -f' 
as root, just in case. Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas why 
firmware loading fails the first time, but at least you will have a 
workaround now.

Best regards,
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Jurij Smakov                                           jurij@wooyd.org
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