Bug#404784: upgrade-reports: sarge -> Etch : megaraid driver problem
Hi Clément,
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 10:05:34AM +0100, Clément Hermann wrote:
> Upgrading from Sarge to Etch on a serveur with a HP Netraid 1M / 2M raid
> controler is likely to fail. (HP LC 2000 here)
> Everything would be fine (that is, not better nor worse than on any
> other servers) until the final reboot : then, the raid controler
> wouldn't be found, so a kernel panic will occur if your root partition
> is on the raid controler, or sometimes an infinite loop depending on the
> initramfs-tool configuration.
> The problem is that the new megaraid driver generation is used
> (megaraid_mm + megaraid_mbox) instead of the legacy one (megaraid) The
> PCI ID for the Netraid card are not considered by the legacy driver, so
> it won't claim the controler.
> If you have modules=dep in your initramfs.conf, the problem would be
> slightly different : megaraid_mm / megaraid_mbox will be loaded and try
> to send commands unknown by the controler, causing an infinite loop
> (sending command, waiting 300 secs for response, sending again, waiting
> 300 secs, and so on).
> This caused by a bug in the megaraid driver that was once patched,
> but the patch has gone between 2.6.14 and 2.6.18-3 kernels and need to
> be re-applied (see bug #317258).
> The patched fixed the problem in my case, though I also had to change
> modules=dep to modules=most, but this won't be a problem for most
> installs as modules=most is the default.
Thanks for the report. Since you're not reporting any problems with the
upgrade process itself, only with the software that's installed on your
system at the end of the upgrade, and the bug in that software is already
reported as bug #317258, I'm going to go ahead and close out this bug.
Cheers,
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