HP DL360 G5 Shows no disks in livecd[SOLVED]

VenomRolls · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2021 Posts: 4

Hey all,
I'm having issues installing gentoo on this ancient HP server. The issues seems to be the hpsa kernel module, but I'm not sure.

At the grub screen, I'm using scandelay doscsi and doload=hpsa. This leads to a hang on boot when trying to load hpsa. Adding hpsa_allow_any=1 has no effect. Without the doload, the CD boots, but seems to hang for a long time on udev. Doing lsmod when the system boots shows that hpsa is loaded, but lsblk shows no devices.

I use gentoo quite happily on my desktop, but can't quite seem to figure out what's going on here, any ideas?

Edit: Updating the firmware fixed everything. Thanks guys!

joanandk · Apprentice Joined: 12 Feb 2017 Posts: 169

Do you see /dev/cciss/cNpN ??

If not, is there any logical drives configured in the RAID controller BIOS?

VenomRolls · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2021 Posts: 4

I do not. On an older kernel, I do, however. I want to avoid having to go the route of using an older kernel, if possible. I have one logical drive, in raid 0.

VenomRolls · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2021 Posts: 4

Quick update,
Trying several other distros with a 5.x kernel seems to result in the same issue.
Loading an older 4.x kernel leads to the cciss driver being used, with flawless results. Kernel bug report time?

Jaglover · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:10 pm Post subject:

Out of curiosity I searched for P400i and found several users having issues, some managed to fix it with firmware upgrade.
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VenomRolls · n00b Joined: 03 Jul 2021 Posts: 4