Description of problem: We've got 4way Opteron based server with QLA2362 HBA on board. Test installation of RHEL5 on was successfull. Server boots up and qla2xxx loads up normally. But next reboot fails because server hangs before kernel starts - during QLogic HBA initialization phase. Server hangs right before HBA BIOS-concerned lines appears. I.e. we can't see that lines. After this hang all we can do it's cold restart. Same server works and reboots well with RHEL4.2, RHEl4.3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Base RHEL5 kernel and drivers. How reproducible: Every warm reboot. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot RHEL5 2. Load QLA driver 3. reboot After that server hangs somewhere in BIOS initialisation. Actual results: Need cold restart to reboot. Expected results: Additional info:
Sorry, not QLA2362 but QLA2342
This is happening to me as well, exactly as described in this bug. I'm running on an IBM x336. Perhaps the firmware that the kernel module loads is causing problems??
(In reply to comment #2) > This is happening to me as well, exactly as described in this bug. I'm running > on an IBM x336. > > Perhaps the firmware that the kernel module loads is causing problems?? > this problem is there with the upstream kernel too - we had similar problems with IBM x336 boxes and other kernels (plain 2.6.15/2.6.16 and also the default debian kernels) here too(and no useful help from IBM to fix it at the time). You can try to upgrade your bios to the latest revision (1.13 might contain a fix for that particular problem) http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-57354&brandind=5000008
There were two Qlogic driver updates during RHEL5.1 development (in kernel versions 2.6.18-19.el5 and 2.6.18-27.el5). Does the current RHEL5.1 beta kernel resolve this problem?
No answer for two months. Closing.