Bug 187573 - megaraid driver hangs with "wait for fw to boot"
Summary: megaraid driver hangs with "wait for fw to boot"
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Chip Coldwell
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-04-01 02:53 UTC by John A. Barbuto
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-06-02 20:33:32 UTC

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Description John A. Barbuto 2006-04-01 02:53:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

We have two Rackable dual Opteron servers with 8GB RAM and a MegaRAID SCSI 320-1
controller (firmware version 1L37).  When trying to boot RHEL4 U3 64-bit AMD64
for install on either server, it hangs while loading the megaraid_mbox driver. 
The final output is "Wait for fw to boot" with a timer that counts down to 0
before quiting.

This problem doesn't occur when booting RHEL4 32-bit x86 or FC5 64-bit AMD64.
Comment 2 John A. Barbuto 2006-06-02 20:31:39 UTC 
Upgrading the controller firmware to 1L47 (released 5/11/06) fixed this problem.
 Feel free to close this ticket.
Comment 3 Chip Coldwell 2006-06-02 20:33:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Upgrading the controller firmware to 1L47 (released 5/11/06) fixed this problem.
>  Feel free to close this ticket.

Feeling free.

Chip
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