Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:50 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
---On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 07:42 -0500, Gerald Waugh wrote:
We have a problem with upgrade to 4.4 When we run 'yum update' everything appears to be OK But, if we reboot the server with the new kernel, we get "kernel panic" when the new kernel attempts to load.
The CentOS splash screen shows briefly, but not long enough to select the old kernel
Hmmm ...
You should get a screen that has a kernel name and is blue, at that screen, you should be able to press any key and then select a kernel before the kernel actually starts booting.
Does that work?
The other issue sounds like maybe you have a custom built kernel driver that you need to build for your new kernel before you boot (maybe a SCSI/RAID driver)?
Since I'm still happily running CentOS 4.3, I should probably keep my thoughts to myself, but that immediate kernel panic sure is a reminder of attempting to boot an i686 kernel with an i586 processor. I'd try to duplicate the reported symptom but my AMD K6-2 box has become an "organ transplant" donor strictly because of kernel requirements.