I hate Linux somedays…
So I tried to upgrade Apollo to kernel 2.6.20.2 from 2.6.14 because 2.6.14 was feeling a tad long in the tooth and I wanted to finally roll up to the latest kernel. This was a horrendously BAD idea as I was about to find out.
Long story short, I wasted over an hour of my life fighting with 2.6.20.2, first getting the new Q-Logic FC-AL HBA driver to load, since they saw fit to move the microcode outside of the driver for god knows what reason. They also removed the isp2xxx module completely which is what I had been using in favour of the qla2xxx driver prior to this.
Once I got the FC drives to detect it seems that the kernel software RAID (md) changed at some point between the two version so even though the drives were awake, the RAID layer wouldn’t come up. I suppose that I’m going to have to finally upgrade the disks on the box and get rid of the fibre channel gear if I want to upgrade to the newer kernel.
Dear lord Linux, please for the love of Bob stop making the user experience HARDER. I’ve been using Linux since 2.0.10ish and compiling my own kernels and it’s just getting more irritating to do.
Please lord can I have that hour of my life back?!
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