I tried it also with RHEL5.4 and 5.6 and no kernel panic occurs. The problem occurs only with 5.5
I found a nice workaround. Before the snippet runs I unload the ext4 kernel module and then no kernel panic occurs. I forwarded the problem to Redhat. On 08.03.2011 22:36, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > On 8 March 2011 20:05, Jürgen Schilp<juergen.sch...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I encounter the same problem as described in an old thread. >> >> In my case I use the cobbler integrated in Redhat Satellite and what to >> use the keep_rhn_host_keys snippet. I found that a got always a kernel >> panic when a mount is done on an lvm or swap partition. >> >> E.g. the previous installation has following partition layout: >> # fdisk -l /dev/cciss/c0d0 >> >> Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 440.3 GB, 440345714688 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 53535 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux >> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 26 53535 429819075 8e Linux LVM >> >> If you create a small snippet with following content: >> mkdir /tmp/aaaaa >> mount /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 /tmp/aaaaa >> >> The mount fails as expected but after the new partitions are created and >> formatted the kernel panic occurs. >> >> Does anybody encounter the same problem? > I still see this with Centos 5.5 installs (also with a P800 RAID > controller). I think it's a bug with the kernel shipped with that > version of RH/Centos. However, happily, the problem isn't present with > Scientific Linux 6. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler-devel mailing list > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel _______________________________________________ cobbler-devel mailing list cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel