We have a HP LC2000 server with a Megaraid-2M RAID controller. The problem is that when I install Red Hat EL 5 the installer fails as soon as it tries to write any data to the array. The type of failure differs from failing to write to the partition, lock-ups to kernel panics. The partitioning and format works fine. When I manually create the partitions and then use mkfs to create the partition it succeeds but when I use fsck to check it it always fails.
I double checked all the drives and the array and found it to be the driver megaraid_mbox causing the problems. It appears that this driver is only intended for newer megaraid cards. I tried using noprobe and then loading the megaraid modules available manually after loading the sym53C8xx driver. It fails to detect any drives until I load the megaraid_mbox driver. I also found an article on this at http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy-Megaraid-Drivers.html#extended I tried this but it seems that the header files required to compile this driver has also been deprecated for the 2.6.18-8.el5-i686 kernel and the make fails. Any ideas or help on this will be appreciated Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
