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
