Problems booting FC2 on Dell Poweredge 2400

Yang Xiao yxiao2004 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 12 17:30:40 UTC 2004


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:55:27 -0400, Small, Jim <jim.small at eds.com> wrote:
> I installed Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Poweredge 2400.  The Dell has a PERC2
> RAID controller card.  I setup a simple RAID-0 array to install Linux on.
> 
> The install went well--no problems.  However, after finishing the install
> and rebooting I get this:
> First I get the grub menu, then when booting I get:
> audit(...): initialized
> agpgart: unable to determine aperture size
> agpgart: unable to determine aperture size
> (not a typo, the above appears twice)
> Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting
> sda: asking for cache data failed
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> (here is just hangs)
> 
> If I reboot and edit the default grub parameters and remove rhgb and quiet,
> I get:
> (lots of info)
> Loading megaraid.ko module
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device ...
> megaraid: found ...
> scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at ..., IRQ 11
> megaraid: ... detected one logical drive
> megaraid: channel[0] is raid
> megaraid: channel[1] is raid
> scsi0: LSI Logic MegaRAID 1.01 ...
> Using cfq io scheduler
> scsi0: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives
>        ...
> SCSI device sda 70770688 512-byte hdwr sectors (36235 MB)
> sda: asking for cache data failed
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> scsi0: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for logical drives
>        Vendor: DELL    Model: 1x6 U2W SCSI BP Rev: 5.35
>        Type: Processor         ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> scsi0: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for logical drives
> Loading aic7xxx.ko module
> PCI: Found IRQ 14 for device ...
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device ...
> (here is just hangs)
> 
> I don't believe it's hardware--other Operating Systems work OK on this box.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
>   <> Jim
> 
> 
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> 
Hi,
check to see if you have the latest BIOS and RAID controller firmware
installed, you will be amazed.
Yang





More information about the fedora-list mailing list