[elrepo] Kernel panic using recent kernels

[Miguel Alvarez]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Miguel Alvarez <miguellvrz9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Just to follow up, this didn't work; same result.  Looks like I'll be
sticking with 2.6.35 for now. :(

Thanks again for your help, Alan.