[elrepo] Kernel panic using recent kernels

[Miguel Alvarez]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote:
> 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?

My thoughts exactly.  I'll give that a go and let you know how it goes!

Thanks again