Jon Schewe, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product- support/product/poweredge-1800/drivers?os=biosa an update to your computer's buggy, insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (A08). When you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate how does this improve the situation?
For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette . Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. Also, you don't have to create a new report. It is most helpful that after the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible: 1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an apport-collect): sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date 2) Please make a comment specifically advising on how this improves the situation. 3) Please mark this report Status Confirmed. If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid. Thank you for your help. ** Tags added: bios-outdated-a07 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1653162 Title: System won't boot after upgrade to 16.04 with 4.4.0 kernel Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have a Dell PowerEdge 1800 with Dell CERC 1.5/6ch RAID controller in it. Everything worked fine under Ubuntu 14.04.1. When I upgraded to 16.04.1 the system won't boot. It can't find the root filesystem. I see errors about host adapter dead on the screen many times. This is with kernel 4.4.0-57 and with 4.8.0-32. When I switch back to kernel 3.13.0-105 the system boots just fine. I have mptbios 5.06.04. The CERC card says bios version 4.1-0 [Build 7403] When booting into the ercovery kernel I'm getting error messages about host adapter dead. Eventually I get a message: "aacraid: aac_fib_send: first asynchronous command timed out. Usually a result of a PCI interrupt routing problem update moher board BIOS or consider utilizing one of the SAFE mode kernel options (acpi, apic etc)" Using kernel parameter "intel_iommu=on" doesn't help. This was suggested on a post that I saw about these errors. Booting with "noapic" didn't help. Booting with "noapic noacpi" didn't help. I've also tried the dkms modules from Adaptec and that doesn't seem to help either. I can't figure out how to upgrade the firmware or BIOS on the system from Ubuntu either. This may be related to this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1552551?comments=all --- ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=beec17b5-eac8-4e94-ac99-65b63c428b77 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-24 (1039 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1) IwConfig: eth1 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation PowerEdge 1800 Package: linux (not installed) ProcEnviron: TERM=screen PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-105-generic root=UUID=83e1b87e-adb9-4798-a6e0-18d401c91a4a ro nosplash noplymouth ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-105.152-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-105-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-105-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157.6 RfKill: Tags: xenial Uname: Linux 3.13.0-105-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-12-25 (3 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 09/01/2004 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.bios.version: A00 dmi.board.name: 0X7500 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 17 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA00:bd09/01/2004:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnPowerEdge1800:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rn0X7500:rvrA00:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct17:cvr: dmi.product.name: PowerEdge 1800 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1653162/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
