Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

[Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com>]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > mdadm is not installed.
> > My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need 
> > mdadm.  I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I 
> > presume that shouldn't need it for Etch/2.6.18.
> >
> >     
> My mistake.  Were you using an in-tree driver for your adaptec card or a
> third-party driver?  Did you check to see if the name of the kernel
> module changed in the 2.6.8 -> 2.6.18 transition?
>   
It looks like the modules that I have specified are all loaded, so I 
guess that means that the names haven't changed.
I was wondering if using the generic i2o_* modules instead of the 
adaptec dpt_i20 module may fix things?
I sort of doubt it.  Maybe it's a compiler issue with new gcc-4.1 code 
generation ???

My /etc/modules file is:

   ide-cd
   ide-disk
   ide-generic
   psmouse

   sd_mod

   aic7xxx

   # NOTE: The i2o drivers have some bugs in them which conflict with the
   # NOTE: dpt_i2o driver and causes a kernel panic or oops.
   # NOTE: This is apparently fixed in 2.6.15 in late December, therefore
   # NOTE: any kernel released in 2006+ _should_ work.
   # NOTE: For now use the adaptec dpt_i2o driver.
   #i2o_config
   #i2o_block
   #i2o_scsi
   #i2o_core
   dpt_i2o


Loaded modules:

   Module                  Size  Used by
   ipv6                  226016  24
   dm_snapshot            15552  0
   dm_mirror              19152  0
   dm_mod                 50232  7 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror
   ide_generic             1408  0 [permanent]
   tsdev                   7520  0
   floppy                 53156  0
   intel_agp              21148  1
   agpgart                29896  1 intel_agp
   psmouse                35016  0
   serio_raw               6660  0
   rtc                    12372  0
   i2c_i801                7468  0
   i2c_core               19680  1 i2c_i801
   pcspkr                  3072  0
   shpchp                 33024  0
   pci_hotplug            28704  1 shpchp
   evdev                   9088  0
   ext3                  119240  2
   jbd                    52456  1 ext3
   mbcache                 8356  1 ext3
   i2o_core               37400  0
   sd_mod                 19040  1
   ide_cd                 36064  0
   cdrom                  32544  1 ide_cd
   ide_disk               14848  5
   dpt_i2o                27900  1
   uhci_hcd               21164  0
   e1000                 108512  0
   aic7xxx               150932  0
   scsi_transport_spi     22336  1 aic7xxx
   scsi_mod              124168  4
   sd_mod,dpt_i2o,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi
   usbcore               112644  2 uhci_hcd
   piix                    9444  0 [permanent]
   generic                 5476  0 [permanent]
   ide_core              110504  5 ide_generic,ide_cd,ide_disk,piix,generic
   thermal                13608  0
   processor              28840  1 thermal
   fan                     4804  0