Hi, I have an IBM xSeries 236 server running fine with SL 53 i386. This machi ne has four ServeRaid Controllers:
One ServerRaid-7k on planar, three ServeRaid-4H in PCI slots. All four controllers work fine. SL is installed on the 7k controller. On the other three I have defined four volume groups and for each controller one logical volume. Now, I wanted to install SL 53 x86_64. But there seems to be a big proble m with the ips driver. The machine boots fine from the SL 53 x86_64 DVD but hangs for several minutes by the message "ips driver loading". At first I thought it hung, but then it finally showed me the prompt to select the keyboard. But then I get error messages that on three disks the partition table is corrupted. I get a prompt to format the drive. I selected No. I stopped the installation and tried to boot the SL53 x86_64 live DVD. Ag ain it takes a very long time to load the ips driver. It only finds the volume groups on the ServeRaid-7k controller. I could n ot mount anything except the /boot partition on the 7k controller. I looked at the disks with fdisk and found three bogus disks with corrupt ed partition tables which are really not there. I guess the broken ips driver has created them. Anyway. what can I do to solve this problem? To me it looks like the ips driver from x86_64 platform seems to work wit h the 7k controller but not with the 4h controllers. I find this very strange. Is the code base for the ips driver not the sam e for both platforms? At the moment I have booted the SL53 i386 installation and everything is back to normal and works fine. Regards, Ernst
