I've got a Dell PowerEdge 4300 system (approx. 1 year old) with a megaraid controller. Attempting to load the megaraid driver (v1b08b) under this kernel (either UP or SMP) bombs out, leaving the system to finish the ramdisk boot, only to fail as it tries to mount the root partition (which is on the megaraid). When the module fails, it prints a dozen lines or so, including something about a signal 11 (IIRC -- we were in a real time crunch this morning. I should be able to get the exact error message within a few days if it would help). Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (megaraid v107 driver) works fine.
Make sure you have the latest firmware for the megaraid controller.
Did this fix it ?
I haven't had a chance to try it. And now that classes have started for the semester, Christmas may be the earliest chance we get to experiment on either of those 2 servers. Go ahead and mark the bug resolved if you'd like. Sorry I can't do any better. :-(
(Additional info I forgot above...) I was able to get the kernel-2.2.16-8 package to work by removing the megaraid patch from the SPEC file and rebuilding the RPM. (I also added in NFSv3 patches, which have been working fine.) This kernel has been running reliably for several weeks now.
I'm going to mark it resolved, because we *expect* oopses on the old megaraid firmware. If you get an oops with the new driver but not with the old driver, I understand that you might be in danger of file corruption because of a bug in the old firmware. FYI.