I think I figured out a little bit on this - at least for my system. When I had the 8gb working on the HDAMA I had the root filesystem on an IDE drive. When I tried the 8gb on the tyan 2885 I had root on a Lsilogic Megaraid scsi card. I was using the 'megaraid' kernel module and it would not mount the filesystem. I got a kernel panic. I just switched to the 'megaraid2' module and all is well. It loads the module, mounts root, and boots up fine now. Mark Bryan Stillwell wrote:
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:18:49PM -0500, Kevin_Gassiot@veritasdgc.com wrote:
We did see some problems on Opterons with the 193 kernel in our Singapore office using an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card. It seemed to be tied to a newer version of the Adaptec driver that SuSE was using compared to an older driver on some P4 systems running RedHat. The new driver had some new SCSI functionality (I think what was causing us problems was Domain Validation and the attached RAID box did not support Domain Validation). This functionality was not in older versions of the Adaptec driver, so the problem did not show up.
I've narrowed the problem to not be related to the SCSI card at all by taking it out completely and trying to install on an IDE disk. The problem still happened even with the latest suse kernel (2.4.21-211-smp).
Bryan