Well, I had hoped to be able to provide a definitive answer but my notes don't state the fix! However: John may be on to the right track because I believe we did the installs with the array disconnected from the controller - the driver then loaded quickly. Our set up in this case has an internal system disk and a separate data array on the LSI controller. The 'driverload=' bit just gets the drivers loaded in the correct order. Martin. -- Martin Bly RAL Tier1 Fabric Team > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of John Hearns > Sent: 29 November 2007 06:58 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: SL5 installation failed because of mptspi? > > On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:11 -0800, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > It takes the installer a LONG time to load the SCSI module > "mptspi", > > this module appears to cause a lot problems, the keys on > the keyboard > > (USB or PS2) are unresponsive except CONTROL-ALT-DELETE, > DHCP and NFS > > all seem to fail. > > If you have problems with a disk or disk controller being slow to load > or be recoginsed by udev, there is a boot time parameter > udev_timeout > > On the boot stanza in grub or lilo add udev_timeout=NN where NN is in > seconds > > I would think that your problem is not this, as the symptoms sound > different. Martin will have the answer for you. > I provide the udev_timeout tip for information - might help with older > hardware. >