Package: kernel Severity: normal
Stock debian kernel images 2.4.26 and 2.6 up to and including 2.6.5 work fine, happily read partition table containing root fs on SCSI disk. Kernel images 2.6.6-1-k7 and 2.6.7-1-k7 fail to read partition table from disk, though do seem to detect controller and disk. Unsurprisingly, eventual kernel panic when root fails to mount. "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table" Not much more to go on than that... Maybe related (same symptoms, similar hardware... different kernel tree): http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108702899205509&w=2 There are a few changes between debian's kernel-source 2.6.5 advansys.c and 2.6.6+ advansys.c, though I haven't managed to prove those changes are responsible, >2.6.5 is working fine on other boxes, so I believe it to be advansys-specific. Report might be more appropriate to LKML or linux-scsi, but since I'm using debian's kernel, reported here first for referral at maintainer's discretion. Hardware: AMD Athlon CPU Advansys PCI SCSI Controller ABP940-U2W Harddisk: SEAGATE Model: ST336607LW lspci: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+] (rev 54) Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U2W ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
