Created attachment 338589 [details]
screen shot of kernel panic

Description of problem:

With the newer 128 series kernels, immediately after grub finished counting down and starts the initrd you get a kernel panic.  Older 92 series kernels boot just fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 and kernel-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 128 variant of kernel
2. Boot box
  
Actual results:

See attached screen shot

Expected results:

System will boot

Additional info:

This is an older Intel SHG2 motherboard with an areca 1130 controller.  Box has 2 x 2.4Ghz processors and 2GB of ram.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE chipset) (rev 13)
00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-WS Host Bridge (GC-LE chipset)
00:00.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CMIC-LE
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0d)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93)
00:0f.2 USB Controller: Broadcom OSB4/CSB5 OHCI USB Controller (rev 05)
00:0f.3 Host bridge: Broadcom CSB5 LPC bridge
00:11.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
00:11.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CIOB-X2 PCI-X I/O Bridge (rev 03)
01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM) (rev 02)
01:09.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80331 [Lindsay] I/O processor (PCI-X Bridge) (rev 0a)
02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1130 12-Port PCI-X to SATA RAID Controller
03:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)
03:09.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)