Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i hangs system at boot
On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote:
>
>> There were no problems upgrading the fw :-)
>>
>> Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem.
>
> Grrr.
>
>>> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options:
>>>
>>> Quiet Boot: DISABLED
>>> Interrupt 19 Capture: DISABLED
>>> --save/reboot/test--
>>> PCI Express Port: ENABLED
>>> PEG Force Gen1: ENABLED
>>> Detect Non-Compliance Device: ENABLED --save/
reboot/
>> test--
>>> XHCI Hand-off: ENABLED
>>> Active State Power Management: ENABLED PCIe (PCI
>> Express) Max Read
>>> Request Size: 4096 --save/reboot/test--
>>
>> None of this worked.
>
> Grrr.
>
>
>>> If none of this works, disable both on board SATA controllers:
>>>
>>> Serial-ATA Controller 0: DISABLED
>>> Serial-ATA Controller 1: DISABLED
>>>
>>> and connect all drives to the 9240, and re-enable Interrupt 19
>> Capture:
>>> ENABLED
>>>
>>> This will allow booting from the 9240. In the 9240 webBIOS, create a
>>> RAID1 array device of two disks, make it bootable, save and initialize
>>> the array. Reboot into the Squeeze install disk and install onto the
>>> RAID1 device. The initialization should continue transparently in the
>>> background while you're installing Debian. When finished reboot to
>>> see if the boot hang persists.
>>
>> I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option.
>> But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set
>> the bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me the option is already
>> set - so it should be ok?
>>
>> Unfortunately the Debian installer doesn't list the RAID1 storage
>> device :-?
>
> Grrrr.
>
> Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS
> show the disk device, RAID level, and its size?
The LSI BIOS shows the RAID1 array with the correct size. But I couldn't
see the disks in the mb BIOS. But I haven't really looked for it so I
will see this evening again if I can find it...
> What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this
> point or a Debian installer kernel driver problem.
This sounds like a plan :-)
>>> Hopefully you won't need to do all of these things as it will be very
>>> time consuming. I'm attempting to provide you a thorough
>>> troubleshooting guide that covers most/all the possible/likely causes
>>> of the hang.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help so far :-)
>
> Sorry it hasn't helped you make forward progress.
Still you help me by having good ideas. I would have already ran out of
ideas...
> Did you already flash the C7P67 BIOS to the latest version? I can't
> recall.
No I didn't touch the mb firmware.
I can do this this evening as well.
Best regards
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