<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Hi </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Can you tell me how you upgarded the kernel and could you paste the command which you perfromed for upgrading kernel. Thanks & Regards, SURESH S Mob:-9742330058 --- On Fri, 11/6/10, Ramesh <cfmx07@yahoo.com> wrote: </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"> From: Ramesh <cfmx07@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] kernel panic after updates. To: "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" <rhn-users@redhat.com> Date: Friday, 11 June, 2010, 6:37 PM <DIV id=yiv9423863> <STYLE type=text/css></STYLE> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">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-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <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 href="http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=100%25" target=_blank rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 rel=nofollow>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 href="http://in.mc954.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhn-users@redhat.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</A> > <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target=_blank rel=nofollow>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</A> _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <A href="http://in.mc954.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhn-users@redhat.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</A> <A href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users" target=_blank rel=nofollow>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV> </DIV> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- <DIV class=plainMail>_______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <A href="http://in.mc954.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rhn-users@redhat.com" ymailto="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></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>