Hi,

On 8/24/18 11:51 AM, Dreyer, Jan, SCM-IT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my configuration:
> HP DL380 G5 with Smart Array P400
> Proxmox VE 5.2-1
> name: 4.4.128-1-pve #1 SMP PVE 4.4.128-111 (Wed, 23 May 2018 14:00:02 +0000) 
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> This system is currently running ZFS filesystem version 5.
> 
> My problem: When trying to update to a higher kernel (I tried 4.10 and 4.15 
> series), the initrd is not able to detect the cciss devices, and as such not 
> able to load the ZFS pools, including the root pool.

FYI cciss is an alias to hpsa as since 4.14:

> commit 253d2464df446456c0bba5ed4137a7be0b278aa8
> Author: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
> Date:   Tue Aug 15 08:58:08 2017 +0200
> 
>     scsi: cciss: Drop obsolete driver
> 
>     The hpsa driver now has support for all boards the cciss driver
>     used to support, so this patch removes the cciss driver and
>     make hpsa an alias to cciss.


> Falling back to kernel 4.4 doesn’t let me use the ZFS cache file system 
> though. :-(
> 
> Any hints on how to detect the raid controller device in initrd?
> 

Sounds a bit like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1765105

Are your firmware versions all up to date?

I did not find related issues searching the LKML, Ubuntu's kernel devel or
related lists. (We very recently ported back a fix for hpsa but it was related
to clean shutdown, no changes for detection/bring up AFAICT). 

regards,
Thomas


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