From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: I have a Dell PowerEdge 1650 I'm trying to do a kickstart on. Part of the post-install I have applies all errata updates. As part of the install process for the 1650 I have to add the following device options to the aacraid module: aacraid_pciid=0x1028,0x0a,0x1028,0x011b otherwise the kernel doesn't recognize that a hard drive exists. When I upgrade to the 2.4.9-31 kernel, and try to boot to it, it says parm_aacraid_pciid is not a valid option for the aacraid module and kernel panics (can't mount root). I booted into the old kernel, mounted the 2.4.9-31 initrd and removed the option lines for the aacraid module from the linuxrc file, and voila the system boots just fine with 2.4.9-31. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Purchase Dell PowerEdge 1650 2. Install Red Hat 7.2 (passing appropriate parameters to aacraid controller) 3. Install errata kernel 4. Attempt to boot to new kernel and watch as kernel panic occurs Actual Results: Bootup complains about invalid module parameters to aacraid module and kernel panics (can't find root). Expected Results: Machine should boot with new kernel. Additional info:
The old module was doing invalid things and adaptec snuck in a hack. The new driver is not from adaptec and is actually a clean linux driver.
I suppose that makes sense in terms of driver differences. Mkinitrd is pulling the bogus options line from /etc/modules.conf, which I need for the 2.4.7-10 kernels. Shouldn't the clean linux driver know to throw the old options away rather than kernel panic or am I just stuck manually fixing this problem on every PowerEdge 1650 I buy?
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