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]
