From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: I have a Dell PowerEdge 4600 that came with 7.2 preinstalled. I upgraded to Valhalla (7.3). On Boot (2.4.18-3smp), the system hangs at "Loading AIC 7xxx module". On another system, I noticed a long timeout on loading this module BUT eventually the system loaded (about 1 minute). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot rh 7.3 on a dell poweredge 4600 Actual Results: hung on loading aic7xxx module Expected Results: should have continued the boot process (like under 7.2) Additional info:
Sorry, forgot to mention that system boots normally under 2.4.18-3, it only locks up on the SMP kernel.
One more clarification, the other system that I mention also pauses on the aic7xxx load is an SMP machine as well.
If you edit the /etc/modules.conf file so that it uses the aic7xxx_old driver instead of the aic7xxx and then rebuild your initrd images (and rerun lilo if using lilo as your boot loader), does the problem go away?
Yes, if I use aic7xxx_old, it works as expected. (Sorry for the late followup)
I'm adding Justin Gibbs from Adaptec to the Cc: list on this bug report. Since it's an SMP specific issue, and one involving his driver, he may have a better idea what's going on. Tom, can I have you attach an lspci listing from your machine to this bug report?
Created attachment 58051 [details] Output of LSPCI
>18 months of inactivity, many erratas later.. closing due to pending EOL.