Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (470 mails)

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Mark Horton wrote:
> I wanted to confirm something I saw earlier.  I cannot boot with 8GB of 
> ram using the 'megaraid' driver.  I switched to the 'megaraid2' driver 
> and it boots up fine.  This is reproducible by simply going into yast 
> and setting the hard disk controller module to 'megaraid'.  Booting will 
> then fail.  I can reboot with kernel option 'maxcpus=0' to get back into 
> the system and then change the driver back to 'megaraid2'.
> 
> I have no problem using the megaraid2 driver so this isn't a complaint. 
>  My system is fast and stable and overall I'm very pleased.  I mention 
> this primarily because I noticed the 9.0 installer by default uses the 
> 'megaraid' driver, not 'megaraid2'.

Thanks. We are aware of this. Some systems only work with megaraid1
unfortunately. And we have not figured out a foolproof automatic way to 
distingush them. So for now you have to change the drivers by hand
if there are problems.

-Andi