I just upgraded a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC running FC2 to FC3. The upgrade crashed and burned with a kernel panic in the reboot after the upgrade The problem is that this machine has a megaraid card. In FC2, that used the megaraid driver. In FC3, that uses the megaraid_mbox driver. Anaconda didn't fix /etc/modprobe.conf accordingly, so the initrd that was generated lacked the required megaraid_mbox driver. Fixing modprobe.conf from rescue mode and regenerating the initrd fixed the problem This will likely bite anyone upgrading < FC3 to FC3 with megaraid devices
megaraid2 SCSI megaraid_mbox megaraid SCSI megaraid_mbox is in the upgrade list. Is your card in the PCI listing for megaraid_mbox?
I think so. It's 01:02.0 Class 0104: 101e:1960 (rev 02) Subsystem: 1028:0475 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185 Memory at fcd00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fce00000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 which should match alias: pci:v0000101Ed00001960sv00001028sd00000475bc*sc*i* right?
Hey, when did the kernel stop running the module upgrade program? Chris, does running 'module_upgrade' by hand fix it?
Yep. I changed /etc/modprobe.conf back to the old entry alias scsi_hostadapter2 megaraid ran module_upgrade, and it corrected it to alias scsi_hostadapter2 megaraid_mbox There's no module_upgrade anywhere in the RPM %post scripts for the kernel that's on that box (kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
ok, its a bit late, but this has been fixed for FC4.