[CentOS] upgrade issue

Dale Dellutri daledellutri at gmail.com
Fri Apr 13 17:32:06 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Paul A <razor at meganet.net> wrote:
> I have an old dell 2450 that was running kernel 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 I then
> upgraded it via yum to 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5. Now when the server boots to the
> new kernel, 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 it hangs on "starting iSCSI" and the weird
> thing is when I tried to switch back to the older 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 kernel
> it works fine but the network script fails to start. I'm not really sure
> what I should do, if someone can give me an idea on what I need to do to fix
> the iSCSId issue on the new kernel or revert back to the old kernel and fix
> the network issue. The odd thing is both kernel load the e100 network driver
> but on the older kernel I can get the network script to start.
>
> I would appreciate some help.

Do you need iscsi?  If not, boot with the old kernel, and disable iscsi

# chkconfig --list | grep iscsi
(will probably show iscsi and iscsid)

Then
# chkconfig iscsi off
# chkconfig iscsid off

Then reboot with the new kernel.

-- 
Dale Dellutri



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