Redhat AS 4

nitrohuffer2001 · 02-21-2008, 12:32 PM

Hey fellas, I did an up2date on an HP DL580 and rebooted. At reboot the box hangs at Initializing hardware... I can ctrl C and break out of it then the box proceeds to boot..after many timeouts and eventually mounts everything in read only file system. I mean a long time 40 minutes or so.

Then I have to mount -o remount,rw / to get the fs back to writable. This problem now happens with old kernels as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

nitrohuffer2001 · 02-21-2008, 04:43 PM

Ok, this box has an HP EML 245e san attached tape library. When the box rebooted after an up2date is hosed the qla* fiber HBA driver. The qla driver on install compiles against the running kernel. When the box came backup it got confused trying to load the old qla driver. I ripped out the old qla driver, recompiled and the box came up.

Solved.