‘megaraid mailbox: wait for FW to boot’
Just feeding google in case someone has same problems…
Today I once more installed Debian (etch, kernel 2.6.17-2-686) via debootstrap using grml. The system has a ‘MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID1 19G Rev: 6.61’ inside and whereas grml booted without any problems, Debian failed with some timeout and FW messages during bootup, like:
megaraid mailbox: wait for FW to boot
Solution: I took a look at the module list of grml (lsmod) and added the relevant stuff to the modules file of Debian’s initramfs-tools:
# cat /etc/initramfs-tools/modules [...] firmware_class mptbase mptscsih mptspi megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm
After rebuilding the initrd the Debian installation booted without any further problems. (Notice: I’m already in contact with initramfs-tools maintainer maks so we can investigate and fix the issue upstream.)