Clonezilla / Bugs / #121 IBM HS21 XM (Type 7995) troubles.

jsw1 - 2011-08-16

It affects many of IBM BladeCenter Blades so I hope you will fix it.

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jsw1 - 2011-08-16

priority: 5 --> 8
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jsw1 - 2011-08-16

ps:
see disk --
sudo bash
fdisk -l

on working systems I see the partitions.
on failing code I do not see anything returned.

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jsw1 - 2011-08-16

I just saw the broadcom restriction.
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/109_Broadcom_NIC_support_issue.faq#109_Broadcom_NIC_support_issue.faq

but the disk restriction remains.
trying your Oneiric version.

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jsw1 - 2011-08-17

I see neither disk nor network in
clonezilla-live-20110816-oneiric.iso

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Steven Shiau - 2011-08-17

So do you have any idea about which linux kernel supports your network card?

Steven.

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Steven Shiau - 2011-08-17

assigned_to: nobody --> steven_shiau
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jsw1 - 2011-08-17

disk as seen from dmesg:
could copy more of it.....

scsi0 : ioc0: LSISAS1064E B1, FwRev=01160000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=286, IRQ=169
mptsas: ioc0: attaching ssp device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 1, phy 0, sas_addr 0x5000c5000a68537d
Vendor: IBM-ESXS Model: ST973402SS Rev: B526
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 143374000 512-byte hdwr sectors (73407 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: bb 00 10 08
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through w/ FUA
SCSI device sda: 143374000 512-byte hdwr sectors (73407 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: bb 00 10 08

bnx2: eth0: using MSI
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
bnx2: eth0 NIC SerDes Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
bnx2i: iSCSI not supported, dev=eth0
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.10

SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through w/ FUA
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda

eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem da000000, IRQ 98, node addr 001a645bfecc
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 90
eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-SX (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem d8000000, IRQ 90, node addr 001a645bfece

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Steven Shiau - 2011-08-17

I am sure bnx2 is included in Clonezilla live 20110816-oneiric:
root@oneiric:/lib/firmware/3.0.0-8-generic# modinfo bnx2
filename: /lib/modules/3.0.0-8-generic/kernel/drivers/net/bnx2.ko
firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw
firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw
firmware: bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw
firmware: bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw
firmware: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw
version: 2.1.6
license: GPL
description: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver
author: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

The required firmwares exist, too.

The info got from modinfo also shows that BCM5708 is supported... It's weird...
Is that possible you can download Ubuntu Oneiric alpha 3 and test if your NIC is automatically detected or not?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-August/000881.html

Steven.

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jsw1 - 2011-08-17

I'll give it a try - today or tomorrow.
I know RHEL 5.5 supports it.

here is a kernel level I am running right now:
in which networking and disk both work.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)

Linux frm-kvm1 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Tue Mar 16 21:52:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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linuxcai - 2011-12-24

i have the same issue, my client is also ibm server, and its networkcard is 5709c, when i boot the client, it says the kenel doesn't support it...

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Steven Shiau - 2011-12-27

As explained here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/forums/forum/663168/topic/4887348

Please do not post more than one place.
Thanks.

Steven.

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jsw1 - 2011-12-28

In browsing Ubuntu bugs .. there apparently have been several bugs not yet fixed on the bnx2 Netextreme network cards. The network issues (which include just not working, and then having a race condition with the fix) are supposedly fixed in the latest Precise release. I don't know if they will back port.

I do not know what/why the hard disks were not showing up ..

here is an Oct 2011 update for the broadcom drivers
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5081963

re: disk
An integrated LSI 1064 SAS/SATA Controller supporting one
onboard SAS hard disk drive or a single or dual configured
solid state drive.
more info and gear here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/xbc/cog/Withdrawn/bc_hs21xm_7995/bc_hs21xm_7995aag.html

not sure what disk the other fellow saw on the Dell.

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jsw1 - 2011-12-28

re: Ubuntu Networking.

recent bug - 11.10 bnx2 firmware missing
lots of updates at the bug:
I hope they back port it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/udev/+bug/842560

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comments:
here is a 2007 bug -- which is a shame because this might be when the troubles started.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/86965

here are some comments in 2009 that the bnx2 driver is too old
http://ubuntu.5.n6.nabble.com/Bnx2-driver-too-old-td1626401.html

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jsw1 - 2011-12-28

re: lsi 1064

searching there is much grief in the land on ubuntu hardy .. and probably going forward....
so much so that I did not want to post here.
not sure if this helps.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-01-03

Please give Clonezilla live 20120103-precise a try. It comes with linux kernel 3.2.0 and it might support your network card.
Please let us know the results.
Thanks.

Steven.

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Michael Brown - 2012-03-21

I tried adding the firmware myself to the initrd for 1.2.12-10, but the kernel just doesn't like the initrd after I remake it. I tried doing:

xzcat /media/CLONEZILLA/live/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd
cd /; find lib/firmware/bnx2/ | cpio -o -H newc -O /tmp/initrd --append
xz -c /tmp/initrd > /media/CLONEZILLA/live/initrd.img

(I also tried recreating the cpio from scratch but got nowhere)

but Linux doesn't like the initrd - it doesn't seem to be able to use it at all:
…
Switching to clocksource tsc
List of all partitions:
No filesystem could mount root, tried:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)

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Michael Brown - 2012-03-21

FYI: I've also tried the Ubuntu-based .iso but it isn't able to even bring up the card, I get the "Firmware not running" error.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-03-22

When using xz to make such an initrd, you need to run it like:
find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc | xz -c -9 --check=crc32 > initrd.img
"--check=crc32" is important.

Steven.

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Steven Shiau - 2012-03-22

When you mentioned ubuntu-based, did you use Clonezilla live 20120319-precise? Or?

Steven.

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Michael Brown - 2012-03-23

'--check=crc32' made all the difference, thanks!

We were trying the -oneric release.

Want me to try the -precise one to test?

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Steven Shiau - 2012-04-05

Yes, please, and please report the results.
Thanks.

Steven.

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jsw1 - 2012-05-27

Its been quite the delay. Sorry.
All of these do not support the bnx2 driver

C:\clonzilla>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 543B-BF1E

Directory of C:\clonzilla

05/27/2012 01:35 PM <DIR> .
05/27/2012 01:35 PM <DIR> ..
05/27/2012 01:34 PM 111,149,056 clonezilla-live-1.2.12-37-i686-pae.iso
05/27/2012 01:35 PM 113,246,208 clonezilla-live-1.2.12-60-i686-pae.iso
05/27/2012 01:09 PM 118,489,088 clonezilla-live-20120326-oneiric.iso
05/27/2012 01:08 PM 127,926,272 clonezilla-live-20120525-precise.iso
4 File(s) 470,810,624 bytes

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jsw1 - 2012-05-27

priority: 8 --> 6
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jsw1 - 2012-05-27

I am pretty sure we are hitting this unresolved Ubuntu bug
Unresolved in oneiric and Precise

bnx2 firmware missing
udev in Ubuntu 11.10 has regressed support for certain hardware configurations,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/842560

all these at this time do not work.

05/27/2012 02:15 PM <DIR> .
05/27/2012 02:15 PM <DIR> ..
05/27/2012 01:34 PM 111,149,056 clonezilla-live-1.2.12-37-i686-pae.iso
05/27/2012 01:35 PM 113,246,208 clonezilla-live-1.2.12-60-i686-pae.iso
05/27/2012 01:09 PM 118,489,088 clonezilla-live-20120326-oneiric.iso
05/27/2012 01:08 PM 127,926,272 clonezilla-live-20120525-precise.iso
05/27/2012 02:15 PM 290,478,637 openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso
5 File(s) 761,289,261 bytes
2 Dir(s) 3,297,783,808 bytes free

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