Problems booting FC2 on Dell Poweredge 2400

From: Small, Jim (jim.small_at_eds.com)
Date: 07/12/04

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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:55:27 -0400

    I installed Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Poweredge 2400. The Dell has a PERC2
    RAID controller card. I setup a simple RAID-0 array to install Linux on.

    The install went well--no problems. However, after finishing the install
    and rebooting I get this:
    First I get the grub menu, then when booting I get:
    audit(...): initialized
    agpgart: unable to determine aperture size
    agpgart: unable to determine aperture size
    (not a typo, the above appears twice)
    Red Hat nash version 3.5.22 starting
    sda: asking for cache data failed
    sda: assuming drive cache: write through
    (here is just hangs)

    If I reboot and edit the default grub parameters and remove rhgb and quiet,
    I get:
    (lots of info)
    Loading megaraid.ko module
    PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device ...
    megaraid: found ...
    scsi0:Found MegaRAID controller at ..., IRQ 11
    megaraid: ... detected one logical drive
    megaraid: channel[0] is raid
    megaraid: channel[1] is raid
    scsi0: LSI Logic MegaRAID 1.01 ...
    Using cfq io scheduler
    scsi0: scanning scsi channel 0 for logical drives
            ...
    SCSI device sda 70770688 512-byte hdwr sectors (36235 MB)
    sda: asking for cache data failed
    sda: assuming drive cache: write through
     sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
    Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
    scsi0: scanning scsi channel 4 [P0] for logical drives
            Vendor: DELL Model: 1x6 U2W SCSI BP Rev: 5.35
            Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    scsi0: scanning scsi channel 5 [P1] for logical drives
    Loading aic7xxx.ko module
    PCI: Found IRQ 14 for device ...
    PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device ...
    (here is just hangs)

    I don't believe it's hardware--other Operating Systems work OK on this box.

    Any ideas or suggestions?

    Thanks,
       <> Jim 

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