Re: Legacy megaraid broken again in FC3 2.6.12?

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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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