[CentOS] Re: Illegal opp code

[Dermot]

2008/9/12 Dermot <paikkos@>:

> HP DL 385 G2.
> CentOS 5.1
> Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
>
> I have a newly installed server that was running x. It told me there
> were updates to install. I accepted that all, except sysreport as I
> always seem to have problems installing. I rebooted, having set the
> default run level to 3. I then got a red screen with an "illegal
> OpCode" error message.
>
> I have used my CD to boot into rescue more. My old system is mounted under /mnt.
>
> I would also like to get my system back up and running. I have put a
> fair bit of time into loading libraries and software.
>
> I have tried editing the grub.conf and commenting out the
> 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 kernel so it used a previous kernel but I can not
> get past this error. There is no message from grub. The system comes
> straight from the BIOS messages into this red screen.
>
> Is there any other ways to determine what the problem is? The error
> messages says nothing more that a few lines of hex which don't look
> useful to me.

This turned out to be an grub issue. The illegal OpCode message seems
to come the HP hardware/BIOS.

I resolved it by booting using an CentOS cd, doing linux rescue at boot.
>chroot /mnt/sysimage
>grub
grub> device (hd0) /dev/csiss/c0d0
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

It took a couple of attempts, my knowledge of grub is limited. During
the process I also booted from a DOS floppy and did a fdisk /mbr. That
removed the Illegal OpCode which confirmed I was on the right route.

Hopefully this post might help some other poor HP harware user.
Dp.