Comment 3 for bug 611474

Correct.

Thanks,
roni

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Roni Kisin
Assistant Professor of Finance
Olin Business School
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
Tel: (314) 935-3563

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Tim Gardner <email address hidden>wrote:

> Roni - We are a bit confused by your description. Are you saying you
> were able to install to a SAS drive using the LiveCD, but then the next
> boot failed when attempting to boot from the SAS drive? And that
> installing to a SATA drive works correctly as well as detecting the SAS
> drives?
>
> --
> Boot fails with busybox prompt using LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E
> PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS [1000:0058] (rev 08) SAS Disk Controller
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/611474
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> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Upon installation of 10.04 32/64bit and 10.10 64bit, to the SAS drives,
> Ubuntu boots into busybox.
>
> The following SAS controller is still not properly supported in Karmic,
> Lucid or Maverick:
> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS [1000:0058]
> (rev 08)
> Module: mptsas
>
> The Precision WorkStation T7500 was purchased from Dell with Red Hat 5.3
> 64bit preinstalled.
>
> We have tested the "rootdelay=60" boot option (tip found in one of the
> similar bugs) which did not work.
>
> We have tested using the Maverick Daily from 23/07/2010 as well as 2.6.35
> RC6 from the mainline PPA.
>
> The symptom we are seeing is being booted into busybox when booting Ubuntu
> from the SAS drive. Booting into recovery mode brings him to an initramfs
> prompt. Booting from a SATA drive seems to works. The BIOS version is A05,
> the latest.
>
> Similar bugs seem to confirm the issue with this controller:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474207
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579572
>
> We went through the following after installing Lucid 64-bit:
> 1) Boot from LiveCD
> 2) Mount drive with installation
> 3) Mount proc dev and sys
> $ sudo -s
> # mount -o bind /proc /media/external_drive/proc
> # mount -o bind /dev /media/external_drive/dev
> # mount -o bind /sys /media/external_drive/sys
> 4) chroot into the external drive
> # chroot /media/external_drive/
> 5) upgrade your system
> # sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get -y
> dist-upgrade
>
> 6) (Optional) - Just to play it safe, we tried the latest kernel available
> to see if the issue was fixed.
> # mkdir linux-2.6.35
> # cd linux-2.6.35
> # wget
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.35-020635rc6-generic_2.6.35-020635rc6_amd64.deb<http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.35-020635rc6-generic_2.6.35-020635rc6_amd64.deb>
> # wget
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-image-2.6.35-020635rc6-generic_2.6.35-020635rc6_amd64.deb<http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-image-2.6.35-020635rc6-generic_2.6.35-020635rc6_amd64.deb>
> # wget
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.35-020635rc6_2.6.35-020635rc6_all.deb<http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc6-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.35-020635rc6_2.6.35-020635rc6_all.deb>
> # dpkg -i linux*.deb; dpkg -i linux*.deb; dpkg -i linux*.deb
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic 2.6.32-24.38
> Regression: No
> Reproducible: Yes
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
> Architecture: amd64
> ArecordDevices:
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
> Subdevices: 2/2
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> AudioDevicesInUse:
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/snd/controlC0: chrdlicka 1401 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
> Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7ffc000 irq 16'
> Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1984A'
> Components : 'HDA:11d4194a,1028026d,00100400'
> Controls : 34
> Simple ctrls : 20
> Date: Thu Jul 29 14:06:07 2010
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=c7d86541-4a23-4268-8aa6-b29e0698687e
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> IwConfig:
> lo no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0 no wireless extensions.
> MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T7500
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic
> root=UUID=80f6800d-8051-47ae-929d-a405428d9194 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34.1
> RfKill:
>
> SourcePackage: linux
> dmi.bios.date: 04/12/2010
> dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.bios.version: A05
> dmi.board.name: 06FW8P
> dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.board.version: A00
> dmi.chassis.type: 7
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd04/12/2010:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT7500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn06FW8P:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T7500
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
>
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