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Bug 215922 - Oops with Dell PE1950
Summary: Oops with Dell PE1950
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: All ISO (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
URL: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel...
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Reported: 2008-04-02 19:03 UTC by Krzysztof Olędzki
Modified: 2008-07-12 16:57 UTC (History)
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Description Krzysztof Olędzki 2008-04-02 19:03:50 UTC 
>=2.6.23 kernels are not able to boot on some Dell servers (PE1950 with MPT SAS with two HDDs as MIRROR for example) and require this patch recently included in the mainline (2.6.24.4):
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=282dac698e338351d3b9fb9db2739fe07e1c2ef9

It seems that LiveCD/LiveDVD/InstallCD are based on the gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r8, where the patch is missing.
Comment 1 Karl 2008-04-06 14:23:35 UTC 
Try booting with the irqpoll kernel argument. If that doesn't work, try the irqfixup argument.
Comment 2 Krzysztof Olędzki 2008-04-06 17:00:50 UTC 
How irqpoll or irqfixup can prevent dereferencing a NULL pointer?
Comment 3 Karl 2008-04-08 01:51:00 UTC 
I suppose it wouldn't. But you never said what the error was, you just linked to a kernel patch.
Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-12 18:12:49 UTC 
The kernel used for 2008.0 Beta 2 is 2.6.24.4-based.  Could you test it when it is released in the next few days and see if it resolves this issue for you?
Comment 5 niogic 2008-04-30 11:47:17 UTC 
Does it work now?

This bug reminds me #215904

If is so, better to set dependencies or specify better the hardware where it fails.
Comment 6 Krzysztof Olędzki 2008-04-30 21:05:46 UTC 
Solved with 2008.0_beta2, thanks.
Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-30 21:59:35 UTC 
Cool, thanks.

We'll RESOLVE this once 2008.0 final is released.