On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:11:20PM +0100, Andrew Robert Nicols wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on some Dell R610s but I've been having > some major issues with the installation when trying to install with an > AMD64 architecture kernel. I've also tried apt-get installing the amd64 > kernel and selecting it at boot time but the system is unable to find the > disks then too and halts when trying to start up the software raid on the > disks. > > The system I have is using an LSI Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express RAID > controller and the controller is correctly detected using the i686 Lenny > kernel. > > I've attached output of lspci -v to this e-mail from the system running > i686 debian. Getting anything out of the amd64 is a right pain though > because it seems that various other devices aren't properly being detected. > For example, I've been unable to get a USB pen drive to be detected and > thus mounted and I've not been able to get the NIC firmware loaded > (Broadcom bnx2 firmware required). > Since I'm unable to get any form of internal or external media mounted and > the NIC isn't being properly detected, I've got no way of getting output of > any commands easily off the server except page-by-page over serial. > > Has anyone else experience this issue, and are there any workarounds? > > I believe that the issue is discussed in two live Debian bugs (#528351 and > #526525) but there seems to be some disparity over where people believe the > bug to be. > > I've also been having issues with getting the keyboard working during the > installer and have to use the remove KVM and specify noapic,nolapic as > kernel options to the installer. Any use of USB keyboard seems to hang the > system.
Well I have one of those LSI cards in an IBM X3650 running Etch with amd64 kernel, and it works great for running a tape drive. I would be very surprised if it had broken in Lenny. How odd. I am of course using the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel to get support for it. I also use USB keyboard and mouse through a KVM and never had a problem with that. Maybe It's just Dell that has a broken BIOS. I will be going to Lenny on the IBM soon, so I guess I will see how that goes. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org