Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 127020
Dell PowerEdge 750 with CERC SATA controller hangs with new 2.6.6 kernel
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:07:27 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Upgrading kernels from kernel-2.6.5-1.358 to kernel-2.6.6-1.435 the boot gets past "adding swap" then freezes and the box squeaks with a really annoying high pitched tone which I think comes from the controller. Everything works fine when booted with the previous kernel on the exact same machines. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.435 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum update 2. reboot Additional info: Freezes with both SMP and NON-SMP kernels exactly the same. Hardware is dell PowerEdge 750: Intel Pentium 4 proc, 3.2GHz, 512K, 800MHz FSB Dell CERC SATA RAID Controller, 64MB Cache 2x 80GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive mirrored
mass update for old bugs: Is this still a problem with the 2.6.9 based update kernel ?
Yes, it is. I installed FC2 on a PE750 last week when I found that FC3 could not detect to the hard drives (RAID 1) on the CERC. I tried both the 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 FC2 kernels from updates and neither was able to access the hard disk.
I'm having the exact problem as well with the 2.6.9 kernel. PE750 2.8 GHZ PIV Dell Cerc SATA Raid 64MB cache 2x40 GB Drives (Mirrored) It mounts the / patition, enables the swap, hangs for a whilre, and starts to boot. At this point its starts to compain about bad and missing inodes. Its almost as if it has lost track of the drives.
I found a workaround, and the cause of the problem. In /etc/rc.sysinit if you comment out: if [ -x /sbin/devlabel ]; then /sbin/devlabel restart fi Then, you'll have a system that works. I'm not sure why devlabel is failing though. When I try it in multiuser mode it gives errors about scsi_unique_id using SCSI ioctl instead of SG_IO. I've also created a patch.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.