Description of problem: When booting a server (old Compaq DL 360) with kernel-2.6.9-42.0.x.EL, then it stops during initialization of cpqarray driver. For details see the attachment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-42.0.x.EL How reproducible: allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot kernel 2.6.9-42.0.x Actual results: unlimited wait during cpqarray initialization Expected results: successful boot Additional info: kernel-2.6.9-34 boots OK and there is a difference in the interrupt assigning line "ACPI: PCI interrupt ..." between 2.6.9-34 and 2.6.9-42 relevant part of dmesg: NET: Registered protocol family 17 ACPI: (supports S0 S4 S5) ACPI wakeup devices: Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed SCSI subsystem initialized Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0) cpqarray: Device 0x10 has been found at bus 0 dev 1 func 0 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0Using cfq io scheduler (Integrated Array) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=17756160 cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing ida/c0d0: p1 p2 device-mapper: 4.5.0-ioctl (2005-10-04) initialised: dm-devel kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Created attachment 138258 [details] boot log
adding "noapic" to the kernel boot parameters makes the machine to boot
So this only affects the 'UP' kernel?
I will try to do some up/smp boots tomorrow.
ping?
pong I am sorry, but it is quite important machine. It will be possible to do the reboots during this weekend, I am sure.
The results are here: - 2.6.9-42.0.8smp - without noapic => boots OK - 2.6.9-42.0.10 - without noapic => boots OK I did not have any older kernel version, e.g. 2.6.9-42.0.2
OK. Closing BZ as NOTABUG then. Thank you for checking the later releases.