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When trying to update from RedHat 6.2 to 7.0 the following error appears in both graphical and text mode: "No drives found An error occured - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem" After pressing ok to this, the system immediately reboots. I have also tried to use the available update diskette, but this didn't solve the problem at all. My system is a Dell Server 1300 with a PERC/2 controller. Here is my fstab file: /dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda8 /data ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/sda5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda6 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 here's the output to dmesg: Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs- 2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 1 0:40:35 EDT 1999 Detected 448625398 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 447.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 257324k/262080k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2932k data, 64k init) DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc86e PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: SAMSUNG SC-140B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 998.601 MB/sec p5_mmx : 1048.893 MB/sec 8regs : 770.382 MB/sec 32regs : 432.054 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (1048.893 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 17/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct. (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted (scsi0) during machine bootup. (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded (scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 11/0 (scsi1) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 374 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4 <Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> scsi : 2 hosts. (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9200 Rev: 1.0c Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 04 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 (scsi1:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 7350 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray megaraid: v1.04 (August 16, 1999) megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx 0:bus 2:slot 9:func 1 scsi2 : Found a MegaRAID controller at 0xd0025000, IRQ: 5 megaraid: [3.00:1.36] detected 1 logical drives scsi2 : AMI MegaRAID 3.00 254 commands 16 targs 1 chans 8 luns scsi : 3 hosts. scsi2: scanning channel 1 for devices. scsi2: scanning virtual channel for logical drives. Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD0 RAID5 34556R Rev: 3.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 1, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 70770688 [34556 MB] [34.6 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 289128k swap-space (priority -1) Creative SBLive! at 0xccc0 on irq 10 st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4, s/g segs 16. Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xcc80, 00:90:27:D6:02:54, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 735190-002, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). scsi3 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 4 hosts.
Are there any messages on VC3 or VC4 when you see this dialog box (hit cntl-alt f3 and cntl-alt-f4)?
no messages on VC3 and VC4. what i've done: boot from cd with update discette until window new install: server, ws, upgrade existing, etc. press enter -> then failure comes. before pressing "ok" looking for changes on vc3 and vc4 -> nothing. the last few lines on vc3 BEFORE pressing "update existing system": "going to insmod raidx (path is NULL)" "going to insmod fat.o (path is NULL)" "going to insmod vfat.o (path is NULL)" "going to insmod ext3.o (path is NULL)" the last few lines on vc4 BEFORE pressing "update existing system": "raidx personality registred" i have the feeling that something with the raid driver is not ok. a "cat /proc/scsi/xx" doesn't show the raid adapter a "cat /proc/modules" shows: megaraid (initializing)
Assigning to a developer.
Check to make sure that you have the latest MegaRAID firmware on your card.
problem can be resolved by updating firmware of megaraid perc2/sc controller. i had version 3.00. DELL has 3.14 on their support site which fixes the problem.
That's what I thought it was. The older firmware had a bug that caused data corruption, so we forced the driver to fail to initialize if the buggy firmware is detected.