Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, m.roth@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.
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*
Um. Er. On boot, you might check a) the BIOS, and b) if there's any option to go into the BMC (or whatever they call it), and poke around.
You don't mention what hardware it is. Googling on IPMI BT: timeout in WR_CONSUME, I found http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/1466/t/19468209.aspx and this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2008-09/msg00014.html, so I'd look at grub options on the kernel line.
mark