Bug#699437: Addition: No successful boot when using 2 TB disks and/or ext4 file system

[Andreas Meile]

After fixing bug #704635 I tested a new Debian Wheezy setup today. To exclude any partition layout specific issues, I allowed Debian to use the whole disk with the automatic partitioning layout including ext4.

http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/Boot_failure_20130407.jpg



More details:

http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/Kernel_panic_after_exit_20130407.jpg
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/Promise_BIOS_details_20130407.jpg
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/dmesg_20130407.txt
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/proc_partitions_20130407.txt
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/ls_dev_mapper_20130407.txt
http://beilagen.dreael.ch/Diverses/dmraid_Wheezy_Bugs/proc_bus_pci_devices_20130407.txt





           Andreas
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Result: Setup (using mini.iso, FTP source=mirror.switch.ch) completely runs fine but startup of the installed system fails after OS selection in GRUB: Difference to the earlier tests with the small disks: It always fails (I repeated booting several times). Hardware is a IBM NetVista A40 (model 6840-QDG) equipped with a Promise Fastrak TX2300 PCI RAID controller and two Western Digital 2 TB Caviar Red NAS SATA hard drives configured as RAID-1. I hope this hint better helps to reproduce this bug. Also worth to note: On the CD boot, using dmraid=yes always works fine, this bug occurs only when booting from hard drive. Postfach 169, CH-8240 Thayngen * i...@meile.biz * http://www.meile.biz

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