SMP Kernel::Boot Failure-hang at "booting the kernel"

[Joseph M Bironas]

I had a similar problem updating to 8 on a Dell PowerEdge. What's the
hardware you're using. If I can, I'll try to dig up a similar config and
hopefully be of assistance.

j-

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:56, Alex F. Evonosky wrote:

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> I have a 440GX box as well, but I cannot even install RH9 much less
> FC1 on it, states "no hard drives found" after it loads the aic7xxx
> and megaraid modules.  RH7.3 and previous version work great and this
> is a production server, so the raid V works excellent.  I have yet had
> a response in over 1.5 years asking how to get off of RH7.3 and move
> on to RH9, so I thought FC1 fixed the 440GX issue, but it did not, as
> I tried to install it.  Opened a bug report a while back on bugzilla,
> yet no reply.  I'm just eagerly awaiting to move on to FC, but stuck.
> 
> my lspci:
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
> 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100]
> (rev 05)
> 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro
> AGP 1X (rev 5c)
> 02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891
> 02:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7860 (rev 03)
> 02:0a.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 80960RP [i960 RP
> Microprocessor/Bridge] (rev 03)
> 02:0a.1 I2O: Intel Corp. 80960RP [i960RP Microprocessor] (rev 03)
> 
> 
> ~Alex
> 
> 
> Joseph M Bironas wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to hear it, but it's nice to know it's an error that has been
> > duplicated.
> >
> > The only thing strange about my system that I haven't mentioned so
> > far is that the boot partition (/boot) is on a standard partition on
> > /dev/sda1, while the root partition (/) is on a logical volume
> > (/dev/Volume00/LogVol00) that is shared between the remainder of
> > /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
> >
> > I would think that if this situation were an impossibility, that
> > neither the SMP or the non-SMP kernel would boot.
> >
> > I have a vary similar config as you, lspci output follows:
> >
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
> > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
> > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
> > 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
> > 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
> > 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
> > [Cyclone] (rev 24)
> > 00:13.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA
> > TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11)
> > 02:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891/7890
> > 02:0e.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U (rev 01)
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