Bug 11179 - Kernel Panic with Dell Dual channel and Quad channel controller together
Summary: Kernel Panic with Dell Dual channel and Quad channel controller together
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kudzu
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-05-02 16:03 UTC by Brian Highers
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-06-22 19:55:31 UTC
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Description Brian Highers 2000-05-02 16:03:33 UTC
If you install with the Dell Dual channel and the Dell Quad channel
together, and the you install the OS to a disk controlled by either one of
these controllers, you will receive a kernel panic when the system
reboots. After further examination we notice that the initrd is not being
created in /mnt/sysimage/boot.  If you perform the same install with two
of the quad channel controllers or two of the dual channel controllers the
problem does not occur.  It is only a problem with one of each together
during install.

Comment 1 Jay Turner 2000-05-03 14:06:59 UTC
This issue has been sent up the chain at Dell and they, along with AMI are
taking a look at this.  Red Hat does not have the hardware in-house, so we will
wait to hear from Dell/AMI.

Comment 2 Tesfamariam Michael 2000-05-18 15:48:59 UTC
There is an updated kudzu RPM that fixes this problem which can be downloaded
from http://people.redhat.com/notting/kudzu/
Another work around to this problem is to go to the bash shell after
installation is completed but before exiting, get to root mode, comment out the
line 'alias scsi_hostadapter* unknown', make the initrd.img and updating lilo
accordingly.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-06-26 16:21:35 UTC
Closing, as this particular bug was fixed in the kudzu currently
in rawhide.


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