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Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot



On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:35AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote:
> 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
> 

based on the notes above, you should be able to use the i2o_*
modules. have you tried them? 

A

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