[CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:50, Andrei F<frunzales at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Andrei F<frunzales at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have CentOS 5.2 installed on two of the afore-mentioned blades.
>> > I've noticed that the OS started to crash lately (kernel panic) and I've
>> > been assigned the task to troubleshoot this issue.
>
> I also need MPP support. Just to give you an example, this is how both
> machines are booting up:
>
> title RDAC CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) with MPP
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /mpp-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img

Couldn't RDAC be the cause of your kernel panics?

Did you try to use the multi-path package that is built-in to CentOS?
(I believe the RPM for that would be device-mapper-multipath.)

HTH,
Filipe