Bug 70866
| Summary: | (CPQARRAY INSTALLER)Compaq Proliant wont boot after up2date giving a kernel panic | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | alexist |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | nkj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:39:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
alexist
2002-08-06 09:12:11 UTC
What disk (sda? sdb?) is your root device on? Can you give an "lspci" and "lscpi -n" info for the raid controller (the rest is not really needed) Currently the machine is a none booting Redhat 7.3. So from rescue mode: The root device is the RAID drive /dev/ida/c1d0p1 lspci gives two entries about RAID they are 00:01.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c895 (rev 02) 03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21554 (rev 01) lspci -n gives 00:01.0 Class 0104: 1000:0010 (rev 02) 03:04.0 Class 0104: 1011:0046 (rev 01) ok weird question: are you using grub ? Yes I am now. The original 7.1 installation used LILO until the update caused the problem. I used the GRUB default for 7.2 and 7.3 when I tried them. OK I just tried doing a minimal install of RedHat 7.3 with no X windows etc. I let the install set the partitions but I picked LILO as the boot loader rather than GRUB It boots!! I also tried 7.2 minimal install with LILO and that boots also. It must be a GRUB problem. I'll stick to LILO as it gets me up and running again. Thanks for the help. I am still having trouble with this. Grub doesn't want to boot from the RAID 5 partition at all. LILO will boot but only from a freshly installed kernel. Any use of up2date to update the kernel will cause even LILO to stop booting. However rolling back to the previous kernel linux_bak from the LILO menu will work. I have just run up2date on a LILO booting Redhat 7.2 with kernel 2.4.7-10. Up2date loaded 2.4.9-34 but the LILO refuses to boot this kernel giving the errors described above. The old 2.4.7-10 still boots. I just noticed the updated kernel thinks the RAID device is /dev/ida/c0d0p1 rather than /dev/ida/c1d0p1 which the original kernel thought it was. I changed the lilo-conf entry for the new kernel to say root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 And fstab entry for swap to /dev/ida/c0d0p3 Reran LILO and now the updated kernel boots Very strange. My Compaq Proliant 1500 with the SMART-2/E RAID controller runs the 2.4.20 kernel in SMP mode (from kernel.org). It runs apache, Lotus Domino, proftp and several other servers, it's been stable for 12 hours now. I selected built-in option for the cpqarray driver under block devices and I still supply the memory layout to the kernel during boot. mem=exactmem mem=640K@0 mem=xxxM@1M (where xxx is your amount of memory minus 1 megabyte) I hope this info helps you guys. Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |