Description of problem: System hang at the udev line when booting up using the SMP kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All Fedora Core 5 SMP kernels. How reproducible: It happens every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up the system with the 3ware 8506-8 card in the system. Actual results: Boot hang at the udev line. The OK never shows up. Expected results: Expected system to boot normally. Additional info: This problem only happens if I boot using the SMP kernel and the 3ware card. If I boot with the non-SMP kernel then the system boots fine with the 3ware card. Also if I take the 3ware card out of the system, then I can boot using the SMP kernel. This problem didn't exist on Fedora Core 4, so I think it must have been a recent change with the udev system since kernel 2.6.15. I have the latest BIOS on the motherboard and the 3ware card. I also tried various kernel boot options such as 'noapic', etc.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
Since I couldn't wait for this bug to be fixed, I moved my RAID card to another machine with a different chip set. So now I can't verify if this new kernel fixes this bug or not. Sorry.