Legacy megaraid broken again in FC3 2.6.12?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jul 27 17:42:47 UTC 2005
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:54:52AM -0400, Luser wrote:
> There's a long-standing problem, documented in bugs 135484 and 138590,
> regarding failure of FC3 to support the legacy megaraid cards like my
> PERC2/DC on install or update. There were workarounds for install (driver
> disk) and for update (the old megaraid driver got built, but update put
> the new megaraid_mbox driver in modprobe.conf and the initrd image, so you
> could fix the conf file and mkinitrd again and boot the updated kernel).
> The symptom on install was "no disks found", on update a kernel panic when
> trying to boot the new kernel when it tries to find the volumes.
>
> On July 15, Dave Jones at Redhat posted to bug 13584
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135484) and several
> other bugs that the update release kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 may contain a
> fix to the problem, and requested that people update and report. Did
> that.
>
> The report is that not only does it not fix the broken initrd setup, it
> appears to break the mkinitrd workaround. I get the kernel panic even
> after fixing modprobe.conf and making a new initrd image. Any experience
> or insight with this here on the list?
Very likely another manifestation of the the 'mkinitrd needs an updated nash' bug.
Dave
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