On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:37:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/20/2012 1:13 PM, Ramon Hofer wrote: > >> There were no problems upgrading the fw :-) >> >> Unfortunately it didn't solve he problem. > > Grrr. > >>> 3. Go into the mobo BIOS and set and test these options: >>> >>> Quiet Boot: DISABLED >>> Interrupt 19 Capture: DISABLED >>> --save/reboot/test-- >>> PCI Express Port: ENABLED >>> PEG Force Gen1: ENABLED >>> Detect Non-Compliance Device: ENABLED --save/ reboot/ >> test-- >>> XHCI Hand-off: ENABLED >>> Active State Power Management: ENABLED PCIe (PCI >> Express) Max Read >>> Request Size: 4096 --save/reboot/test-- >> >> None of this worked. > > Grrr. > > >>> If none of this works, disable both on board SATA controllers: >>> >>> Serial-ATA Controller 0: DISABLED >>> Serial-ATA Controller 1: DISABLED >>> >>> and connect all drives to the 9240, and re-enable Interrupt 19 >> Capture: >>> ENABLED >>> >>> This will allow booting from the 9240. In the 9240 webBIOS, create a >>> RAID1 array device of two disks, make it bootable, save and initialize >>> the array. Reboot into the Squeeze install disk and install onto the >>> RAID1 device. The initialization should continue transparently in the >>> background while you're installing Debian. When finished reboot to >>> see if the boot hang persists. >> >> I was able to set a RAID1 in the WebBIOS and set the bootable option. >> But I'm not sure if the setting was accepted. Even though when I set >> the bootable option again the WebBIOS tells me the option is already >> set - so it should be ok? >> >> Unfortunately the Debian installer doesn't list the RAID1 storage >> device :-? > > Grrrr. > > Does the mobo BIOS show the disk device? If not, does the 9240 BIOS > show the disk device, RAID level, and its size?
The LSI BIOS shows the RAID1 array with the correct size. But I couldn't see the disks in the mb BIOS. But I haven't really looked for it so I will see this evening again if I can find it... > What we need to figure out is whether this is a BIOS problem at this > point or a Debian installer kernel driver problem. This sounds like a plan :-) >>> Hopefully you won't need to do all of these things as it will be very >>> time consuming. I'm attempting to provide you a thorough >>> troubleshooting guide that covers most/all the possible/likely causes >>> of the hang. >> >> Thank you very much for your help so far :-) > > Sorry it hasn't helped you make forward progress. Still you help me by having good ideas. I would have already ran out of ideas... > Did you already flash the C7P67 BIOS to the latest version? I can't > recall. No I didn't touch the mb firmware. I can do this this evening as well. Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpcoav$6a2$3...@dough.gmane.org
