[CentOS] New kernel causes kernel panic/unable to mount root

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri May 6 15:59:49 UTC 2005


On Fri, May 6, 2005 10:34 am, Martyn Drake said:
> Matt Dainty wrote on 06 May 2005 16:22:
>
>> If it was, it sounds like you need to install that driver and rebuild
>> the initrd for the newer kernel.
>
> That's what I'm thinking, given the difference in size between the old
> kernel's initrd and the new kernel's initrd - the old kernel's precompiled
> initrd is significantly larger..
>
>> Check /etc/mod(ules|probe).conf for an "alias scsi_hostadapter ..."
>> line. You should be able to find the module referenced in the
>> /lib/modules directory of the old kernel, if it doesn't exist in the
>> modules directory of the new kernel, it's walked somehow, I don't
>> think it would be removed from a newer kernel update.
>
> No entry exists for the module in modules.conf, and I've checked for
> sata_sil in both old and new /lib/modules directories and it exists in
> both
> kernel versions.
>
> Regards,
>
> 	Martyn

One thing to check is if you have kernel-unsupported installed in the old
kernel version.  If so, make sure to install the new version as well.

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