Thank you for the quick reply. When I installed the 11 May 2009 squeeze amd64-netinst with kernel 2.6.26-2, the installer worked perfectly all the way through to reboot but when I ejected the cdrom and rebooted, the installation could not find the disk drives on the reboot. cat /proc/modules shows that all the mpt modules are loaded, so something funny is going on.
P.S. I'd be somewhat surprised if it was kernel because I was able to upgrade etch to the latest kernel without any problems (i.e., right before I upgraded from etch to lenny). My problems started when I upgraded from etch to lenny. --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Bug#528351: debian-installer: cannot find disk drives > To: "BranchingFactor" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:38 AM > Hello, > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:50 AM, BranchingFactor > <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > Our Opteron server with LSI SAS 1068 controller and 2 > SAS drives has > > been running amd64 etch for two years without any > problems. Last week > > we attempted to upgrade the system from etch to lenny > (stable) and > > after the upgrade the system could not find the disk > drives and so the > > boot failed. Next I tried to install the current > lenny 5.01 stable > > amd64-netinst from scratch and it halted during the > installation being > > unable to find any disk drives. I tried choosing > each of the mpt > > drivers manually (including the obvious candidate > mptsas) but it > > didn't help. > > > > Subsequently I tried the latest 05/11/09 squeeze > amd64-netinst and the > > debian-installer detected both drives without any > problems. > > Unfortunately after reboot this squeeze installation > failed to detect > > the disk drives so the machine was unusable with > squeeze. > > I belive it is due a bug in kernel; could you try to boot > using sid > kernel? This is the same kernel used in daily images that > has detected > your disks properly. > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > E-mail: [email protected] > http://www.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 > http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
