[elrepo] Kernel panic using recent kernels

[Alan Bartlett]

On 2 March 2011 21:38, Miguel Alvarez <miguellvrz9 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there an archive of the older kernel-ml RPMs available?  I could
> have sworn an older version of kernel-ml worked on my G6 but of course
> I can't remember which version it was.
>
> But I agree, very strange indeed but I can verify I'm seeing the same
> behavior on both my G6 and G7.  There's nothing special about the fs
> layout -- I always just accept the recommended default configs during
> the install process:
>
> ---/etc/fstab---
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
> ---fdisk -l ---
> Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.7 GB, 146778685440 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2              14       17844   143227507+  8e  Linux LVM
>
> I'll keep working on things on my end, but if you could point me to
> the archive (presuming there is one), that would be greatly
> appreciated.

Hi Miguel,

We don't keep an archive of the previous kernel packages. Once the
latest stable tarball is released by the LKA, new kernels are built,
signed, uploaded and the previous packages are committed to the
universal null device.

However we do have two kernel-ml series available. The first is the
2.6.37-*.el5.elrepo series that users of yum will obtain. (Eventually
that will be replaced by the 2.6.38-*.el5.elrepo series, once
linux-2.6.38 has been declared stable.) The other kernel-ml series is
based on the long-term support linux-2.6.35 tarball. This is currently
2.6.35-11.el5.elrepo and that is what I am using on this workstation.
I find that the 2.6.37 series is just too new for this "antique"
hardware. (11.5 years old!)

[quote]
[ajb at GX1 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.35-11.el5.elrepo
[/quote]

Perhaps you would care to try that version?

Regards,
Alan.