Using a kernel from the other supermicro server (Hoary 2.6.10) to boot from, I was then able to apt and compile from the vanilla source tree (patched with mm3 to get Areca support) a 2.6.17 kernel that works fine. I had to use gcc 3.3. Same source with 3.4 would not work. Ubuntu 2.6.15-7 source did not get me a bootable kernel, but I don't recall if I compiled with 4.0, 3.4 or 3.3. I have installled this box numerous times and numerous variants unfortunately.
Recompiling the booted 2.6.10 kernel from source did not recompile nicely. This makes me think that it's a gcc >= 3.4 problem. I yanked the whole source tree from the working Hoary box and tried to recompile it with no changes to the config since I know that it will compile on Hoary/3.3. I'll try ubuntu source package compile with 3.3 on Monday 7/10. It's currently doing a drbd sync of 2Tb... : ) -- 6.06 64bit kernel totally broken after install, gcc3.3 fixes https://launchpad.net/bugs/51157 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
