Linux 2.6 no boot report

[Hubert Tonneau <hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org>]

I've successfully run Linux kernel 2.6 on several boxes, with the exception
of the Dell PowerEdge 2600:
The box is:
. dual Xeon
. Fusion SCSI controler
. root partition is software RAID 1
. Intel pro 1000 ethernet

It fails with all 2.6 kernel I tried, including the fresh 2.6.4
No error message at all, the machine just freezes after displaying network
protocols and before displaying VFS root mounting message.

CONFIG_2GB:  y
CONFIG_APM:  y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS:  n
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE:  y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK:  n
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE:  y
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND:  y
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE:  y
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND:  n
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF:  y
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF:  y
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT:  y
CONFIG_ATALK:  m
CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID:  y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF:  y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD:  y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR:  m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRIRON:  y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT:  y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG:  m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST:  m
CONFIG_CODA_FS:  m
CONFIG_E1000:  y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL:  y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS:  y
CONFIG_FAT_FS:  m
CONFIG_FILTER:  y
CONFIG_FIREWALL:  y
CONFIG_FUSION:  y
CONFIG_FUSION_CTL:  m
CONFIG_FUSION_ISENSE:  m
CONFIG_FUSION_LAN:  m
CONFIG_HFSPLUS_FS:  m
CONFIG_HFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_HIGHMEM:  y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G:  y
CONFIG_HPFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_IDE:  y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO:  y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK:  y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO:  y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ:  y
CONFIG_INET:  y
CONFIG_INPUT:  y
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV:  m
CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD:  y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE:  y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV:  m
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS:  y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL:  y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE:  y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP:  y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW:  m
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD:  y
CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE:  m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT:  m
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE:  y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS:  m
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF:  y
CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD:  y
CONFIG_LOCKD:  m
CONFIG_M386:  n
CONFIG_M486:  n
CONFIG_M586:  n
CONFIG_M686:  n
CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION:  y
CONFIG_MD:  y
CONFIG_MD_BOOT:  y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR:  y
CONFIG_MD_LVM:  n
CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING:  y
CONFIG_MD_RAID0:  y
CONFIG_MD_RAID1:  y
CONFIG_MD_RAID5:  y
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED:  y
CONFIG_MD_TRANSLUCENT:  n
CONFIG_MODULES:  y
CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD:  y
CONFIG_MOUSE:  m
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2:  y
CONFIG_MPENTIUM4:  y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS:  m
CONFIG_MTRR:  y
CONFIG_NET:  y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES:  y
CONFIG_NETFILTER:  y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET:  y
CONFIG_NET_SCHED:  y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CSZ:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_DSMARK:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_GRED:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_HTB:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_INGRESS:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_RED:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_SFQ:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TBF:  m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_TEQL:  m
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM:  y
CONFIG_NFSD:  m
CONFIG_NFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_NLS:  y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437:  m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850:  m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1:  m
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8:  m
CONFIG_NTFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_OOM_KILLER:  y
CONFIG_PACKET:  y
CONFIG_PARPORT:  m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC:  m
CONFIG_PCI:  y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS:  y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY:  y
CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC:  y
CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS:  y
CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING:  y
CONFIG_PM:  y
CONFIG_PPP:  m
CONFIG_PPPOE:  m
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC:  m
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP:  
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE:  m
CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY:  m
CONFIG_PREEMPT:  y
CONFIG_PRINTER:  m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK:  y
CONFIG_PROC_FS:  y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE:  y
CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS:  m
CONFIG_RTC:  y
CONFIG_SCSI:  y
CONFIG_SERIAL:  m
CONFIG_SHAPER:  m
CONFIG_SLIP:  m
CONFIG_SMB_FS:  m
CONFIG_SMP:  y
CONFIG_SOUND:  m
CONFIG_SUNRPC:  m
CONFIG_SYSCTL:  y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC:  y
CONFIG_UFS_FS:  m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS:  m
CONFIG_UNIX:  y
CONFIG_USB:  m
CONFIG_USB_ACM:  m
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO:  m
CONFIG_USB_CDCETHER:  m
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS:  y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD:  m
CONFIG_USB_HID:  m
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT:  y
CONFIG_USB_KBD:  m
CONFIG_USB_MOUSE:  m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI:  m
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD:  m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER:  m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE:  m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI:  m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT:  m
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD:  m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS:  m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE:  y
CONFIG_VORTEX:  y
CONFIG_VT:  y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE:  y
CONFIG_X86_MCE:  y
CONGIG_KMOD:  y