<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I can boot the kernel with older kernel after reinstalling GRUB. But that is too old kernel and at some point I need to update the kernel. At some point I will need to update kernel again and face the same problem. <div> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><hr size="1">From: Aaron Bliss <abliss@brockport.edu> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) <rhn-users@redhat.com> Sent: Thu, June 10, 2010 12:19:02 PM Subject: Re: [rhn-users] kernel panic after updates. Can you try booting to an older kernel. This will help to eliminate other hardware/software issues. Aaron On 6/10/2010 12:14 PM, Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > While I was updating kernel in one of my RHEL 4 boxes, it prompted as > below and then upon restart, the machine failed to boot up halting at > the GRUB prompt. I was able to restore GRUB by "linux rescue" . But > still, the system is not able to boot with the new kernel. It says > "kernel panic" > > > Installing... > 1:kernel-xenU-devel ########################################### 100% > <<a target="_blank" href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 2:kernel ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > > WARNING: No module BusLogic found for kernel 2.6.9-89.0.25.EL, > continuing anyway > 3:kernel-devel ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 4:kernel-doc ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 5:kernel-hugemem ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > > WARNING: No module BusLogic found for kernel 2.6.9-89.0.25.ELhugemem, > continuing anyway > 6:kernel-hugemem-devel ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 7:kernel-smp ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > > WARNING: No module BusLogic found for kernel 2.6.9-89.0.25.ELsmp, > continuing anyway > 8:kernel-smp-devel ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 9:kernel-utils ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > 10:kernel-xenU ########################################### 100% > <<a href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target="_blank">http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25</a>> > > > Also, while I try to boot the new kernel, it says as below: > > Unable to find volume group "disk" > no volume groups found > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > mount: error 2 mounting none > > I tried reinstalling Vmware tools, but of no avail. Also, tried using > Buslogic driver for ESX 2.5 (as I couldn't find Buslogic driver for ESX > 3.5) and that doesn't work either. > > Do you have any clue how to fix this issue ? > > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > <a ymailto="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com" href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com" href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> </div></div> </div> </body></html>