[elrepo] Kernel panic using recent kernels

[Miguel Alvarez]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Miguel Alvarez <miguellvrz9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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!

2.6.35-11 does work.  I'll take its kernel config and try rebuilding
2.6.37 with it and see what happens.

Thanks!