netboot hardy installer marvell sata disks not detected.

[Ebbex]

1) Ubuntu 8.04 hardy

2) netboot.tar.gz ?

3) 2008.02.26

5)
1 in every 20 or so boots the installer will detect the disks. The other 19 times, they are not detected.

This means I've actually managed to install hardy on the disks previously (by randomly changing bios settings). On my installed system, running the linux-2.6.24 kernel they work as normal. The problem seems to arise whenever using the hardy-installer. Though I previously had the same symptoms on an installed system running (custom) linux-2.6.2{2,3} kernels.

Included for your viewing pleasure; dmesg, lsmod, lspci from the installer, and from an installed system.

keywords for other searchers with similar problems:
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6145 SATA II PCI-E controller (rev a1) Unknown device 8220
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5WDG2 WS Professional

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Ebbex,

Care to test the latest release, it should have an updated kernel, 2.6.24-11. From your comments I'm assuming this is not an issue if you use the alternate installer? Also curious what happens if you eliminate the netboot in step 2? Thanks.

[Ebbex (eb4x)]

Using the files {linux,initrd.gz}, dated 2008.03.04, from
ftp://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ubuntu-installer/i386/
None of my disks show up.

I don't have a cd-rom, so i'm not able to test normal/alternate cd-releases. It needs to be done via pxe.

[Ebbex (eb4x)]

uname -a
Linux mj 2.6.24-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 29 22:08:31 UTC 2008 i686 unknown

[Ebbex (eb4x)]

Related bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/139234

same type of marvell sata 6145 controller.

[Kim Botherway (dj-dvant)]

i386 and amd64 using netboot from 20070308ubuntu33, e.g. http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/installer-i386/20070308ubuntu33/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz

hard drive controller ATI SB600 on both computers

I had another amd64 PC with the same kernel version, which I did an scp of the sata*.ko modules to the netbooted /lib/modules/.... directory then modprobed, but I don't have access to that PC any more.

[Stas Sușcov (sushkov)]

Confirming this!
I've got an Asus A6M laptop, on which I've tried to install 8.04.1 (2.6.24-19 !!!) from the netboot image I found here [1].
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/

And I couldn't see my hdd detected.

[Stas Sușcov (sushkov)]

I must add that for me, in none of 20 boots it detected my hard disks!
I would change the priority.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

1) If you are comfortable installing packages on your own, the linux-image-2.6.27-* package is currently available for you to install and test.

--or--

2) The upcoming Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 will contain this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. Alpha5 is set to be released Thursday Sept 4. Please watch http://www.ubuntu.com/testing for Alpha5 to be announced. You should then be able to test via a LiveCD.

Please let us know immediately if this newer 2.6.27 kernel resolves the bug reported here or if the issue remains. More importantly, please open a new bug report for each new bug/regression introduced by the 2.6.27 kernel and tag the bug report with 'linux-2.6.27'. Also, please specifically note if the issue does or does not appear in the 2.6.26 kernel. Thanks again, we really appreicate your help and feedback.

[Stas Sușcov (sushkov)]

Thank you Leann,
I'll be back with test results as soon as I'll get in touch with my
laptop I used last time.

Cheers

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[Manoj Iyer (manjo)]

This bug was reported a while ago but there hasn't been any recent comments or updates. Is this still an issue with the latest pre-release of Jaunty 9.04? Refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta . Please let us know.

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