[CentOS] Old hardware, newer kernels

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Thu Sep 19 21:30:12 UTC 2013


Thanks for the suggestion Mark.  So, I can only read so fast, but a bunch
of stuff flies by then it stops at the following:

*Switching to clocksource tsc*

And a good while later, this line pops up:

*IPMI BT: timeout in WR_CONSUME [ B_BUSY H_BUSY OEM0 SMS B2H H2B ] 1
retries left*



On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > I have an old server (old hardware) that's been running 6.4 with kernel
> > 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686, no problem.  Except, any kernel update after
> > that
> > causes it not to boot anymore.  All I get is a blinking cursor on the
> > screen, nothing else.
> >
> > Is this the end of this hardware, no more kernel updates after this?
> >
> I *think* I remember that i386 hardware's no longer going to be supported,
> but I thought that was with a 3.x kernel. I could well be wrong.
>
> Do you see the grub line on reboot? If so, delete rhgb and quiet (I hate
> them, but they're ok for someone who has no clue...), and see what's
> happening.
>
>        mark
>
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