On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 11:58 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: > Hi, > > following system: > Dell PE2650, 2 2.4ghz Xeon, 1gb ram, Dell Perc4DC Controller > > It has EL5 installed, but I wanted to change to Centos because of the > missing workstation packages in the entry server repository. > > The system was redhat up2date until yesterday, so the latest kernel was > missing. > I changed redhat-release to centos-release packages and the new centos > kernel was installed the via yum. > > This kernel does not boot. > > Error messages: > i20:iop0: Get status timeout > i20:iop0: Reset timeout > i20:iop0: could not reset controller > i20:iop0: Reset timeout > kernel panic > > Here are my findings when setting emulation in scsi adapter bios to i2o: > > - initial redhat el5 install fails, no adapter found (mayby centos > install is affected, too, have to set to 'mass storage' to install) > - redhat's kernel-2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 and kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 boot with > i20 enabled > - centos latest 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 does not! error messages above > - setting to 'mass storage' all is fine > > Is this really a centos kernel problem (I read in centos kernel > changelog about special centos changes), or is this for any reason > because this is actually a redhat system? We built the kernel as they released it ... the only change SHOULD be the way the kernel modules are signed. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070503/43955e7a/attachment-0005.sig>