Description of problem: The recent FC6 rawhide kernels do not boot on HP Integrity (ia64) servers that have the LSI Fusion scsi adapter (which is nearly all models). I am able to also reproduce this with upstream kernels. When I recompile the kernel with this linked in vmlinux instead of as a module it boots properly. The .config changes I made to make this work were to set CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_FUSION_SPI and CONFIG_FUSION_CTL all to "y" instead of "m". The FC5 kernel booted OK with these still as modules. I am currently looking at the 2 kernels to see what change might have broken this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.16-1.2153_FC6.ia64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the latest rawhide install CD on an HP Integrity server 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I just tried this again with 2.6.16-1.2195_FC6 and it appears to be working now. Don't know if it was fixed or if I was just confused last week but I will keep an eye on it to see if it starts failing again.