Hi Stan et al.,
Booting from the working kernel, I have dumped dmesg here:
I tried to save dmesg booting under the 3.2.0-4_amd64 kernel from
within initramfs, to no avail (I cannot mount usb drives to save the
information, and it does not see the network). However, when I added
"debug" to the kernel line in the boot command, I was at least able to
see the system messages while the errors were happening. Here is the
relevant block of text, and sas is involved:
ata7: sas eh calling libata port error handler
sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Unable to reset I T nexus?
sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Found ATA device
sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Unable to soft reset
sas: sas_ata_hard_reset: Found ATA device
ata7: reset failed (errno=-11) retrying in 10 secs
... which was posted a short time ago and appears to be
the identical problem. However, I am struggling to understand what I
should do in response. It seems to be saying that my hardware and its
drivers are too "new" for Wheezy, even though this machine is 2 yrs
old?? Does this mean I have to upgrade to Jessie?
Thanks,
O