Bug#526525: AMD64 kernel - mptbase

2009-05-18 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
I'm having the same issue as being discussed in this thread with installation of a new Dell R610. i686 installation detects disks properly (output of lsmod attached). amd64 installation doesn't detect disks so I'm unable to install. Output seen in dmesg includes the line: mptbase: ioc0: Error - :

Bug#529436: linux-image-2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem: Only 3.2Gb of memory accessible out of 16gb in system

2009-05-19 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-vserver-686-bigmem Version: 2.6.26-15lenny2 Severity: important System is a Dell R610 with 16GB of RAM but only the first 3.2GB is currently being detected. This is using a bigmem kernel so should expect to see all 16GB. Not quite sure where to start looking into

Bug#526525: a problem with mptbase or bnx2 (was: Bug#526525: Kernel linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 does not see) root RAID device /dev/md0

2009-05-22 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 09:04:38AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: Reboot with USB stick plugged in: now I get a long pause immediately after md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 I look in dmesg for a usb-storage device: nothing. I look for /dev/sd[a-z]*: nothing So I can't mount the

Bug#526525: a problem with mptbase or bnx2 (was: Bug#526525: Kernel linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 does not see) root RAID device /dev/md0

2009-05-22 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:10:01AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Robert Nicols andrew.nic...@luns.net.uk wrote: For the record, I'm seeing exactly the same thing too here. I'm booting off a pendrive with the debian installer on it so the pen-drive

Bug#526525: retitle 526525 disk and network fail on Dell T610 under 64-bit kernel only

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 05:27:40PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: retitle 526525 disk and network fail on Dell T610 under 64-bit kernel only Tony, This bug doesn't just affect disk and network and it doesn't just affect the T610. I'm seeing problems detecting the disk and network controllers and

Bug#526525: disk and network fail on Dell T610 under 64-bit kernel only

2009-05-30 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:01:56PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: retitle 526525 64-bit kernel failures on Nehelem CPUs such as Dell T610, R610 Possibly fixed by a BIOS upgrade. See report on the PE mailing list at http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-May/039328.html Will try on

Bug#526525: disk and network fail on Dell T610 under 64-bit kernel only

2009-06-09 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:36:21AM +0100, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:01:56PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: retitle 526525 64-bit kernel failures on Nehelem CPUs such as Dell T610, R610 Possibly fixed by a BIOS upgrade. See report on the PE mailing list at http