Bug#93589: Megaraid crash on linux boot
reassign 93589 kernel-image-2.2.18pre21
thanks
Ken Menken <menken@teamgenesis.com> writes:
> The system is a DELL PowerEdge server with 1024MB RAM and Dual PIII 500.
> SCSI RAID 5 is supported by a Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (BIOS
> 1.36, Feb. 19. 99) from American MegaTrends, Inc. and an Adaptec
> AIC-7890 (v. 2.01 DELL 001) SCSI controller.
>
> aic7xxx=no_probe (or no_reset -- both from boot screen page <F6>) does
> not solve the problem.
>
> The boot sequence fails after Megaraid v 1.11 Aug. 23, 2000.
>
> The error is:
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000002b4
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c024199a>]
> EFLAGS: 00010206
> ...
> Code: ac ae 75 08 84 c0 75 f8 31 c0 eb 04 19 c0 0c 01 85 c0 74 1c
>
> R*d H*t 6.0 was previously installed on this box as currently
> configured, so I know a stable combination of drivers is possible.
You did not indicate which kernel flavor you were using.
Anyhow, this is a kernel issue, not a boot-floppies issue. Therefore,
I am reassigning.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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