Bug#438337: Megaraid boot failure

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:03:54PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Unable to install Debian 4.0r3 as there is a lock up during hardware  
> detection, would seem to be around the raid module.
>
> Installed 3.1 which went fine, upgraded to 4.0r3 using apt-get update ;  
> apt-get -y dist-upgrade, went fine.
>
> Attempted to install a 2.6.18-6 kernel and the megaraid-mbox module  
> enters a 300sec loop....so this bug is still outstanding.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz