Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:45:26 +0200
From: Luc Stroobant <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: initrd-tools: System with 3ware 9500 fails to boot after clean Sarge install
Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
The subject says it all. When you install Debian Sarge on a machine (Supermicro SuperServer) with a 3ware 9500 SATA (hardware) RAID controller, the installer detects the card fine. System gets installed on /dev/sdax without any problems, but at the reboot after the installation proces, it fails to boot. (hangs after "...savedefault\nboot")
I tried installing both the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel, nothing worked.
"Yeah, from a shell on another console in debian-installer, I had to
manually add 3w_9xxx to /etc/mkinitrd/modules and run
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-k7-smp 2.6.8-1-k7-smp"
I tried this, booting the system with a live-cd an mounting /.
Adjusted the path for modules etc and after rebuilding the initrd, I was able to boot the server.
After that, I installed a new custom kernel with 3w_9xxx support an without initrd support (just to be sure ;-) and everything is working fine now. I guess this is some bug in the initrd-tools or initrd.img that gets installed with Sarge. I hope this can be fixed in 3.1r1.
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:45:26 +0200
From: Luc Stroobant <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: initrd-tools: System with 3ware 9500 fails to boot after clean Sarge install
Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.81.1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
The subject says it all. When you install Debian Sarge on a machine (Supermicro SuperServer) with a 3ware 9500 SATA (hardware) RAID controller, the installer detects the card fine. System gets installed on /dev/sdax without any problems, but at the reboot after the installation proces, it fails to boot. (hangs after "...savedefault \nboot" )
I tried installing both the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel, nothing worked.
Google learned me this: lists.debian. org/debian- amd64/2004/ 09/msg00254. html
http://
"Yeah, from a shell on another console in debian-installer, I had to modules and run img-2.6. 8-1-k7- smp 2.6.8-1-k7-smp"
manually add 3w_9xxx to /etc/mkinitrd/
mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.
I tried this, booting the system with a live-cd an mounting /.
Adjusted the path for modules etc and after rebuilding the initrd, I was able to boot the server.
After that, I installed a new custom kernel with 3w_9xxx support an without initrd support (just to be sure ;-) and everything is working fine now. I guess this is some bug in the initrd-tools or initrd.img that gets installed with Sarge. I hope this can be fixed in 3.1r1.
lspci -v: www.stroobant. be/lspci. txt
http://
When you need more details or tests, just ask.
Luc