[CentOS] Hardware raid LSI Megaraid not working since Centos 6.6

Wed Jan 14 13:16:07 UTC 2015
Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE <bda at aime-toulouse.fr>

Le 05/01/2015 16:14, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE a écrit :
>
> We have a SuperMicro server with a LSI MegaRAID 9260-4i controller.
>
> Since Centos 6.6 update (kernel 2.6.32-504), the controller doesn't
> initialize at boot. Reverting to kernel 2.6.32-431 allows server to boot
> fine.
>
> The server can't boot due to a bug in LSI megaraid module. Boot log ends
> by a lot of lines:
>
> RESET_GEN2: retry=xxx, hostdiag=a4
>
> I tried Centos 6.6 install disk and it also fails to find disks but
> Centos 7 install disk boot fine.
>
> It's annoying to be stuck at 2.6.32-431 kernel and I have no idea how to
> solve this issue :-(
>

My workaround is to install kernel-lt from elrepo repository. It seems 
to work well.

# uname -rv
3.10.64-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 9 10:40:17 EST 2015

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