kernel panic (maybe a stupid question)

[Mike Markiw III]

Matheus,

I've actually run into a very similar problem on a RHEL ES 4 system in the last couple of months.  I'll give a quick rundown of what happened.

1.  I did a clean install of v4 using kernel 2.6.9-5smp and everything ran just fine.  (As an aside, even the non-smp kernel worked ok for me)

2.  I needed to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.9-11 to install a piece of Oracle software.  I tried using up2date, but whenever I rebooted the system I got the error you are describing.  I tried numerous versions, all the way up to 2.6.13, both smp and non-smp and always got the exact same thing.

3.  I tried doing a custom kernel compile, thinking that the SATA drive was causing the problem.  Same problems.

4.  Finally, I broke down and replaced the SATA drive with a regular IDE drive.  I reinstalled RHEL and performed the upgrade via up2date and everything worked fine.

I can't prove it conclusively, but for some reason it seems that my SATA drive (or controller) wasn't playing nice with RHEL.  When I replaced it with a standard IDE it worked fine.  So, my question for you is, are you using a SATA hard drive?  

-Mike


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bigodines - [mailto:bigodines at yahoo.com.br]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 02:45 PM
> To: Redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: kernel panic (maybe a stupid question)
> 
> Hi guys!
> 
> I was running RH Enterprive v3 and I then I tried to
> migrate to the version 4. Ok, I'm not a linux expert
> (I'm just a regular desktop user that just started
> with this server stuff). Instalation went well, no
> errors at all. So, after reboot, I still have two
> options to choose (one is the kernel with SMP and the
> other is the 'regular' kernel). 
> 
> If I choose the kernel with SMP, the system works OK
> (well I didn't tested everything, but at least it
> starts and give me no errors)
> 
> If I try to enter using the kernel withou smp, I've
> something like:
> 
> "Creating root device
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none"
> 
> Probably this is a totally newbie question... but I
> really don't know what to do to fix this problem.
> 
> BTW: Before this try to upgrade, everything was
> working well.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Matheus
> 
> bigodines
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