Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-15 Thread Spiro Harvey
Larry Brigman wrote: > If the /boot is also part of the raid and it is a soft raid (fake raid > is the same) > then maybe only one of the mirror is being updated and grub is > looking at the other mirror and not finding the files needed. I think you're on the right track here. I dropped the raid

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Spiro Harvey wrote: I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a This is a fresh install, so that's not an issue. Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS for JBOD, use a rescue disk to build mdraid partitions, and restore your files from the b

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread Larry Brigman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > >>> I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a >> >> This is a fresh install, so that's not an issue. >> >>> Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: >> I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a > > This is a fresh install, so that's not an issue. > >> Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS for JBOD, >> use a rescue disk to build mdraid partitions, a

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread Spiro Harvey
> I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a This is a fresh install, so that's not an issue. > Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS for JBOD, > use a rescue disk to build mdraid partitions, and restore your files > from the backups. you may have

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread John R Pierce
> The raid is indeed an Intel Matrix RAID. The BIOS is configured so that > the sata controller is in RAID mode, and the "OPROM" is set to Matrix > Raid. > I would backup ALL your file systems off that disk, perhaps using a Linux rescue CD, then configure the controller in the BIOS for JBOD,

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread Spiro Harvey
John R Pierce wrote: > The E8500 is a desktop Core2Duo CPU, I thought? 'what sort of Yes, my mistake. It's a Core 2 Duo. I don't know where I saw the Xeon sticker. I saw the E8500 on /proc/cpuinfo but didn't RTFS properly. :/ This was further confused when I googled E8500 and one of the h

Re: [CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread John R Pierce
Spiro Harvey wrote: > Box is a dual core Xeon (E8500) with hardware SATA RAID on board. > The E8500 is a desktop Core2Duo CPU, I thought? 'what sort of Hardware SATA RAID? Do you mean, Intel Matrix Raid? thats not actually hardware, thats BIOS/driver implemented fake raid, and frankly,

[CentOS] kernel not booting after update

2009-11-12 Thread Spiro Harvey
Hi all, I'm having a strange problem in which a certain box won't boot any kernel newer than 2.6.18-53. I have a kickstart setup that installs a CentOS 5.1 base (which comes with kernel 2.6.18-53), and then I do a "yum update" to 5.3. However, when 2.6.18-164 gets installed, the box is rebooted