Kernel Problems
Mark Eggers
mdeggers at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 20 23:39:05 UTC 2004
> 2. Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore (Brian Fahrlander)
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:24:51 -0500
> From: Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net>
> Subject: Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore
> One day 'yum update' offers me kernel-2.6.6-1.435. I reboot to it,
> expecting to have to mess with the Nvidia drivers, but I never get that
> far- instant reboot. No text, no explanation, just BEEP! and I see the
> BIOS re-init. Very funny.
>
> So I stay with the old kernel, kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. A couple of
> days or weeks go by.
I think that 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 is a later release than 2.6.6-1.435?
>
> Today I was offered kernel-2.6.8-1.521. Instant reboot.
> Questions:
> 1. Is anyone ELSE having this glaring problem?
Currently I am running 2.6.8-1.521 on a Dell 8200 with no apparent
problems other than ntfs currently does not work. I've tried
downloading the build scripts and creating the rpm on my own, but I
still get a fault.
> 2. What can I do to learn why *I* am having it?
A hardware list would help, as would any messages in boot.log and
messages.
> 3. Is this thing going to keep happening?
Hopefully not.
I have a couple of tasks that I have to do every time I upgrade the
kernel.
1. Rebuild NVidia driver
2. Install kernel-ntfs
I normally change /etc/inittab to boot into level 3. I then build the
new NVidia driver and install it. Finally, I attempt to build the
kernel-ntfs module and install it. The last two times building the
kernel-ntfs module have failed (and I get the RPM from
linux-ntfs.sf.net).
Once the first is accomplished, I then change back to run level 5 and
reboot.
If you're having immediate problems with booting, try seeing if you can
boot into single user mode. Then take a look at the logs and see if
there are problems.
I know, I know - this isn't very informative. However I hope it gets
you started.
/mde/
just my two cents . . . .
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