Issues with Realtek RTL8168 and 4.19.48 kernel

[Sebastian Roth]

@Enki213 From what I see in the picture you posted below (ref) there is no network problem but the kernel cannot find your disk! Is the disk mode set to AHCI or RAID in BIOS?

[Enki213]

@Sebastian-Roth hadn’t thought to check that, It’s currently set to RAID for the NVME drive

[george1421]

@Enki213 said in Issues with Realtek RTL8168 and 4.19.48 kernel:

It’s currently set to RAID for the NVME drive

Do you have more than one nvme disk in a raid configuration?

[Enki213]

@george1421 yes it did,
Would it be worth to do an “upgrade” to set everything back to default settings?

[george1421]

@Sebastian-Roth said in Issues with Realtek RTL8168 and 4.19.48 kernel:

there is no network problem but the kernel cannot find your disk!

Ugh, I was too quick to blame the realtek nic this time. Yes its the disk controller that wasn’t found.

[george1421]

@Enki213 said in Issues with Realtek RTL8168 and 4.19.48 kernel:

yes it did,

Are you using both nvme disk configured as a raid setup or only you just have 2 nvme drives installed? The answer is important.

[Enki213]

@george1421 just the one, it’s how they came from Dell for intel rapid storage technology

[george1421]

@Enki213 The issue is linux + uefi firmware + dell disk controller in raid-on mode means that FOG will not see the disk. If you change any of the three it will work. Normally if you are not specifically running a raid configuration you can change the disk mode back to ahci mode any everything will work. I’m doing that right now with a batch of 7050s

[Enki213]

@george1421 good to know!

I know linux has a few shortcomings with some windows hardware but in general makes up for it with flexibility almost everywhere else and the fact that it’s light weight.

now just to deal with the Exec format errors

I just wanted to say thank you for the quick responses!

[george1421]

@Enki213 said in Issues with Realtek RTL8168 and 4.19.48 kernel:

Linux has a few shortcomings

Yo, in this neighborhood them is some fight’n words.

The issue is actually with intel not releasing the driver information so the linux kernel developers can create the driver for it.

Well I would start by rolling back the change you did to bring in bzImageRT kernel. Then I would have to ask you what did you change? I’m not seeing a reason (at least in the ipxe menu) why it isn’t working.

[Enki213]

@george1421 @Sebastian-Roth I reverted everything back and switched the Sata mode to AHCI and everything is working great again and both the NIC and storage passed the compatability test!

Big thanks to both of you!

Hopefully the big companies will start releasing open-source drivers so Linux can thrive