Re: WARNING : kernel 2.6.11.7 (others) kills megaraid 4e/Si dead

[Chris Wright]

* Andy (genanr@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> cross posted due to the severity of this issue.
> 
> I have killed two Dell 1850 (x86_64) with megaraid 4e/SI servers using
> kernel 2.6.11.7.  When the system boots, it looks like it does not see the
> megaraid controller (because it never prints anything about it) and hangs
> when it tries to mount root.  When rebooted, the system says no firmware
> present for embedded raid controller.  I then try to flash it, the flash
> program says the firmware is corrupt and flashes the controller.  However,
> upon reboot I still get the no firmware present, thus the machine can no
> longer boot off the raid.

Not good.  There were no megaraid changes in the -stable series.  What's
the last kernel.org kernel that worked for you?

thanks,
-chris
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