Re: kernel panic after kernel upgrade

2003-04-04 Thread James Jones
James Jones wrote: I decided I shouldn't ignore the blinky exclamation point any more, and fired up up2grade. It upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-27.8.0, among other things, and I rebooted... ...only to get a kernel panic, complaining about not being able to mount the root fs. If I choo

RE: kernel panic after kernel upgrade

2003-04-03 Thread Dave Tibbals
ot into the old kernel if necessary. > -Original Message- > From: James Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: kernel panic after kernel upgrade > > > Dave Tibbals wrote: > > >Ta

Re: kernel panic after kernel upgrade

2003-04-02 Thread James Jones
Dave Tibbals wrote: Take a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst It should look like the following: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd path

RE: kernel panic after kernel upgrade

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Tibbals
p2grade. It upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-27.8.0, > among other > things, and I rebooted... > > ...only to get a kernel panic, complaining about not being > able to mount > the root fs. > > If I choose to boot from the previous kernel, 2.4.18-26.8.0, > all is well. &

kernel panic after kernel upgrade

2003-04-02 Thread James Jones
I decided I shouldn't ignore the blinky exclamation point any more, and fired up up2grade. It upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-27.8.0, among other things, and I rebooted... ...only to get a kernel panic, complaining about not being able to mount the root fs. If I choose to boot from the pre

Sony AIT tape drive (IDE) causing kernel panic

2003-01-05 Thread Justin Clacherty
after finishing the backup causes a kernel panic. mt rewind tar tvf /dev/tape The tape seems to have the tar file on there as it displays the right contents on the screen before printing a whole lot of rubbish up and ending with the kernel panic. /dev/tape is a symbolic link to /dev/nht0, all t

kernel panic solved!!

2003-01-03 Thread Rigoberto de la Cruz
last month I had several problems with kernel panics after installing new hardware. I have solved the problem by insatalling a new power supply. I guess that the old psu was sufficient for the new graphic card. thanks to Andrew for helping me out... by the way.. happy new year to everyone.. Rigo

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-21 Thread Tom Ball
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 05:57, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > To be clear: specifying "rootflags=data=writeback" causes the kernel > > panic. > > it's also the wrong thing to do: the initrd mounts your root filesystem, > not the kernel. So the mount flag n

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-21 Thread Arjan van de Ven
upposed to be > > > > rootflags=data=writeback > > You're right -- in reporting the problem I dummied up my grub entry > since I had removed the problem entry. What you wrote is what I > originally used, per that article. > > To be clear: specifying "roo

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:12:26AM -0800, Tom Ball wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:26, Kevin McConnell wrote: > BTW, the writeback option support is in (search for "writeback"): > > file:///usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ext3/super.c > > and its use is in: > > file:///usr/src/linux-2.4/fs/ext3/fsy

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
That's supposed to be > > > > rootflags=data=writeback > > You're right -- in reporting the problem I dummied up my grub entry > since I had removed the problem entry. What you wrote is what I > originally used, per that article. > > To be clear: speci

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Ball
problem I dummied up my grub entry since I had removed the problem entry. What you wrote is what I originally used, per that article. To be clear: specifying "rootflags=data=writeback" causes the kernel panic. Tom -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:12:26AM -0800, Tom Ball wrote: > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0) - Home > root (hd0,5) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/ rootflags=mode=writeback > initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img > > As someone previously suggested, I also

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Tom Ball
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:26, Kevin McConnell wrote: > --- Tom Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an > > ext3 root device with > > it set to writeback mode? When I add > > bootflags=mode=writeback to my > > kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics becaus

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-20 Thread Justin Zygmont
On 20 Dec 2002, Chris Kloiber wrote: > Wouldn't this be something to be put in /etc/fstab where you normally > see "defaults"? Yep, check out 'man mount', it's in the 'Mount options > for ext3' section. data=writeback. Before you actually do this however, > I've heard this option is fast, but not

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Chris Kloiber
Wouldn't this be something to be put in /etc/fstab where you normally see "defaults"? Yep, check out 'man mount', it's in the 'Mount options for ext3' section. data=writeback. Before you actually do this however, I've heard this option is fast, but not always safe in the event of a crash. YMMV. On

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Tom Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an > ext3 root device with > it set to writeback mode? When I add > bootflags=mode=writeback to my > kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics because it > doesn't recognize the > option. Where did you read ab

Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Ball
Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an ext3 root device with it set to writeback mode? When I add bootflags=mode=writeback to my kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics because it doesn't recognize the option. It looks like the kernel first mounts the drive as a ext2, then quickly switch

Re: kernel panic!

2002-12-15 Thread Schotty
Rigoberto Spake: >Andrew > > Hello Andrew.. thanks for your response... I did not > express what I wanted to know.. the problem is that > I'm getting a kernel panic... unfortunately I'm using > X, so I can not see anything except for the blinking > lights... I w

Re: kernel panic!

2002-12-14 Thread Rigoberto de la Cruz
>On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:14, Rigoberto de la Cruz >wrote: >> I was wondering what a kernel panic code means... CAPS >> LOCK and SCROLL LOCK are flashing (at the same time). >> Does anyone know what that means? does anyone know >> here to find any info... than

Re: kernel panic!

2002-12-12 Thread Schotty
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:14, Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote: > I was wondering what a kernel panic code means... CAPS > LOCK and SCROLL LOCK are flashing (at the same time). > Does anyone know what that means? does anyone know > here to find any info... thanks... Hello Rigoberto, A ker

kernel panic!

2002-12-10 Thread Rigoberto de la Cruz
I was wondering what a kernel panic code means... CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK are flashing (at the same time). Does anyone know what that means? does anyone know here to find any info... thanks... __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful