On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:24 -0700, Tod Merley wrote:
> On 9/21/06, john bray <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > currently running on 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
> >
> > installed the 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 rpm.
> >
> > booted 2187. kernel panic. every time i boot that kernel.
> >
> > re-downloaded the rpm and re-installed it. there are no additional
> > modules -- plain vanilla kernel.
> >
> > always panics like this. but the 2174 and prior kernels come up just
> > fine.
> >
> ...
> >
> Hi john bray!
>
> A couple of questions. What kind of disks are you using? Do they
> need special drivers? If so, are these drivers included in the new
> initrd for your new kernel?
>
hey tod - thanks for the idea. i'm doubting that it's the disk. it's
just a normal seagate pata drive. lshw output for it is:
*-ide
description: IDE interface
product: nForce2 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 9
bus info: pci@00:09.0
version: a2
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=AMD_IDE latency=0 maxlatency=1
mingnt=3
resources: ioport:f000-f00f
*-ide:0
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 66MHz
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST3200822A
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@xxx
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3.01
serial: 4LJ0DPF5
size: 186GB
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm
partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: mode=udma5 smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Linux filesystem partition
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@xxx,1
logical name: /dev/hda1
capacity: 101MB
capabilities: primary bootable
*-volume:1
description: Linux LVM Physical Volume partition
physical id: 2
bus info: ide@xxx,2
logical name: /dev/hda2
serial: YdtHGt-TmAN-WjJJ-pL8K-m1y5-PqzK-1Ej5Hr
size: 186GB
capacity: 186GB
capabilities: primary multi lvm2
which seems pretty normal to me, albeit i'm sure no expert on drive
characteristics.
john
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