Precision 390 and FC5

[Garrett Mitchener]

I just got this note from another list.  I don't know if it's relevant
to your problem.  This person's computer wouldn't boot unless a
particular RAID kernel module was included in the initial ram-disk
(initrd), and for some reason that isn't done automatically.  See
below for the command.  If this solves your problem now, then each
time you upgrade the kernel you'll have to run mkinitrd like this to
make a custom initrd with the appropriate module after installing the
new kernel.

Hope this helps,

-GM

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Summary: Fusion MPT: SCSI bus freezes when target speed >80MB/s


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200787





------- Additional Comments From davej at redhat.com  2006-10-19 14:49 EST -------
Kevin, are you using RAID on the box that won't boot 2200? If so, you'll need
to rebuild the initrd with this command -

mkinitrd --with=raid456 /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.img 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5

It should then boot.
- Show quoted text -

On 10/19/06, Russell Scott <rusty at s5w.com> wrote:
>
>
> Just got a new Precision 390, cracked open the box and installed FC5. The
> install went fine with kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 x86_64 SMP.  I was
> pleasantly surprised to see that the installer recognized the HW RAID1 setup
> as an array as I had heard that HW RAID could be an issue.  I then did an
> update of the kernel to 2.6.18-1.2200_FC5 which just came out and it hangs
> as the kernel starts to boot.  I backed out of that update and went through
> the hoops to update to 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 and is also hangs in the same
> place.  Anyone else seen this issue?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rusty
>
> System Specs:
> Precision 390
> Duo Core2 at 2.66 GHz
> 2 GB RAM
> Default BIOS settings
> 2 160 GB Sata Drives
> HW RAID1
>
> Boot:
> root (hd0,0)
>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> quiet
>     [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1d7968]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img
>     [Linux-initrd @ 0x37e15000, 0x1da1e5 bytes]
>
>
> .
> Decompressing Linux...done.
> Booting the kernel.
>
> RedHat nash version 5.0.32 starting
> _ (this is a blinking cursor)
>
>
>
>
> kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ 8000-8000
>
>
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