<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alan Cox wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20081002213956.666b2546@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">INFO: task scsi_scan_0:449 blocked for more than 120 seconds </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It got stuck trying to scan a scsi device - perhaps the RAID array. If you hit a key during the boot prompt from grub and edit the boot line to remove the "quiet" it will spew rather more info which should help see what broke and where </pre> </blockquote> You are right :) Tons and tons of this: aac_srb: aac_fib_send failed with status: 8195 I found this <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450444">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450444</a> Adding aacraid.dacmode=0 did not help, same errors. But mem=4G did. I went into the GRUB menu and edited the boot line ('e') and it booted fine. Can anyone point me in the direction of how I would permanently fix this? I noticed on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=94cf6ba11b">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=94cf6ba11b</a> that it says "limiting the discovered kernel memory (mem=4G) with an associated loss in runtime performance" - is there a better way to fix this issue, now that I can actually access the box? Thanks in advance!!! :) Much appreciated. -- Laura </body> </html>