* Thomas Backlund (tmb@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > >* Andy (genanr@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >>cross posted due to the severity of this issue. > >> > >>I have killed two Dell 1850 (x86_64) with megaraid 4e/SI servers using > >>kernel 2.6.11.7. When the system boots, it looks like it does not see the > >>megaraid controller (because it never prints anything about it) and hangs > >>when it tries to mount root. When rebooted, the system says no firmware > >>present for embedded raid controller. I then try to flash it, the flash > >>program says the firmware is corrupt and flashes the controller. However, > >>upon reboot I still get the no firmware present, thus the machine can no > >>longer boot off the raid. > > > > > >Not good. There were no megaraid changes in the -stable series. What's > >the last kernel.org kernel that worked for you? > > Any news on this matter? > I hvr a PE1850 waiting for kernel upgrade, but I'm afraid to do so now... > > I can't break my box with tests since it's in active use... > For now I'm running a 2.6.8.1 based kernel on the box... Last known good one (that Andy tested) was 2.6.10. His was the only report I've seen, and I haven't found any more details on it. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
