[CentOS] Old hardware, newer kernels

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Kernel 279 runs fine with those options listed in my first e-mail.  And it
copies them over to any newer kernel.  I'll have to tear the box open
tomorrow to get details on it.  It's a custom made white box, several years
old, running dual Pentuim III processors.


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:39 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:22 PM, <m.roth at 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
>
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