I'm in the process of upgrading about 10 Linux servers from various RH installations that are greater than or equal to 6.0 (most of the kernels are variations of 2.2, ie 2.2.10; 2.2.13 etc)
ALL of the servers are Penguin servers running redhat. The first 4 went (sort of) smoothly. Last week's attempt had the aix7xxx driver bug, so I put that off for now. The server I tried to upgrade this week has SCSI devices with the ncr538xx devices at PCI bus 0 device 13 (whatever that means). In addition, the floppy drive was bad and we changed the floppy device and also added an extra 128M memory, for a total of 256M. At first, the memory would not load until I added the append statement (below), and which was commented out before/during the upgrade. When I booted the system after the upgrade, I got a "VFS: Kernel panic unable to mount root fs 08:00....." (or something close to that); then the system just hung. At this point, I reset the server and booted off the 2.2.10 boot disk. It refuses to boot the new kernel boot disk I made while upgrading; I get the same kernel panic. So I now have a 7.1 os with a very old kernel. If I do a lilo -q -v the output points to /dev/fdo 2.2.10 Here's my /etc/lilo.conf file: [root@localhost]# cat /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=30 verbose=3 #compact #append="mem=256M" message=/boot/message #linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux read-only root=/dev/sda2 image=/boot/vmlinuz-backup label=backup root=/dev/sda2 read-only THIS LOOKS LIKE I'M OPERATING THE RIGHT KERNEL, with the right parameters; why won't it boot? One last question; my 24M /boot partition ran out of space during the upgrade, so I deleted the old boot images and other files. Might that have something to do with this mess? How do you officially get rid of old files in /boot and also /usr/src/linux/ ?? Thanks in advance. -Jeanne _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
