Build Problems on a Dell r340

[Bill MacAllister]

On 2020-07-31 10:15, Bill MacAllister wrote:
> On 2020-07-31 01:04, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:46:40 -0700, Bill MacAllister 
>>>>>>> <bill at ca-zephyr.org> said:
>> 
>>     >    # uname -r
>>     >    5.6.0-0.bpo.2-amd64
>> 
>>     > But the problem persists:
>> 
>>     > [   40.048619] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: Could not get 
>> controller info.
>>     > Fail fr
>>     > om megasas_init_adapter_fusion 1880
>>     > [   40.049975] megaraid_sas 0000:02:00.0: Failed from 
>> megasas_init_fw
>> 
>>     > Not sure what to try next.  Fall back to the stock buster kernel 
>> maybe.
>>     > Suggestions
>>     > welcomed.
>> Maybe the wrong driver is loaded? Do you know which driver or which
>> kernel version would work?
> 
> I have been half a dozen of these systems before I rebuilt my FAI 
> system.  The
> old nfsroots where stretch.  We are a Ubuntu shop, so all of the 
> systems I am
> building are Ubuntu.  Building VMware VMs work just fine with the newer 
> version
> of FAI and nfsroot.  The systems that are using the H330 Perc 
> controllers are
> 4.15.0 kernels of assorted patch levels.  The two systems I am looking 
> at are
> 4.15.0-106-generic and 4.15.0-112-generic.  The specific module is
> megaraid_sas.ko.
> I am going to try the stock buster kernel in an NFS root and see what 
> happens.

The stock buster kernel worked.  Can you remind me what problems get 
solved by
the backport kernel?

Bill

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Bill MacAllister <bill at ca-zephyr.org>