RHEL 4 Update problem

[Scott Becker]

Thanks for the feedback. All my partitions are on the one raid volume. 
After seeing a simular problem in bugzilla, #149184, I booted linux 
rescue and looked everything over, didn't see anything wrong, so I ran 
'grub-install /dev/i2o/hda' and now it works fine. It's my understanding 
that you're not supposed to have to run this just because you changed 
the kernel, but for some reason it was necessary. The changelog for grub 
shows a patch for the i2o_block driver which is new an now needed for 
the adaptec. The i2o_block maintainer is aware of the problem.

I'm not sure about the state of RHEL 4 in general, it refused to install 
successfully on my sata drive at home (failing various ways depending on 
the configuration). I was happy to see 4 released because I was just 
starting to setup a new machine for our main web site and the new kernel 
should take better advantage of dual hyperthreaded cpus (four virtuals 
total). However I'm a bit nervous about updates breaking it. A few weeks 
ago an update to RHEL 3 killed DNS on another server, requiring me to 
run 'chkconfig named on' to get it back in action (it took two days 
before I realized why I could no longer run up2date).

    thanks again
    scottb


Rick Stevens wrote:

> You don't say if the Adaptec is used for the root device or not...
>