The console show "Stage2 loading" or something like that, it never proceeded any further.

I can remove the "rhgb quiet" option next time I try, but I am afraid that some modules are either not included or in the wrong order for this particular hardware/software setup in the RAMDISK image in this particular kernel.

On 07/07/2012 03:33 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 02:09 AM, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a Supermicro box (motherboard X7DW3) with 3ware RAID card (9690SA-4I).
>> I have 24 drives attached to this raid card, while the first three drives were
>> exported as SINGLE (JBOD) drives. The /boot and /root are Linux software raid
>> 1 on these first three drives.
>>
>> The latest kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64 would failed to boot, but the
>> previous kernel, kernel-2.6.18-308.8.1.el5.x86_64, worked just fine. I also
>> tested with CentOS kernel-2.6.18-308.8.2.el5.x86_64 and ended up with the same
>> fate. Does anyone see this problem at all?
>>
> 
> Maybe take a screen shot (with a camera) of the boot process where it stops, could be an idea?  Make sure to remove 'rhgb' and 'quiet' from the kernel command line (you can edit the grub settings on the fly, if you reach for the menu).
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> David Sommerseth
>