okay..so i was wrong...hehehe...aint the first time. problem was, i forgot to
make a new initrd.img file before rebooting to my spanking new kernel update.
sheesh. tuloy, di niya na-load yung megaraid and scsi drivers ng kernel version
na bago. i had to reinstall...am here...naninigas sa lamig sa ndc ng infocom.
postmortem, i wonder if i could've done the whole thing without having to
reinstall. that means i would have to boot from a kernel that has the megaraid
driver, and the scsi adapter driver with it. tsk tsk tsk...okay. grabe...why is
it the harder lessons come at bigger price tags (the bother of coming here on
thursday, holy week).
have a great holy week to you all...God bless.
vince.
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>
> hi...i did a very stupid thing today. with the goal of closing security
> holes
> and making our server more stable, i upgraded the kernel of our RH6.2
> box,
> which is co-located at infocom. *sigh*
>
> thing was, i forgot we were using the MD drivers and RAID (mirroring) on
> its
> two identical scsi drives. well, it seems that the MD drivers for kernel
> 2.2.17-
> 14 (take from rh6.2-updates) uses a different format or cant seem to
> understand
> that of the MD drivers for the 2.2.14-50 (stock RH6.2) kernel. after
> reboot
> (from a remote location), it said...kernel panic, unable to find root
> file
> system.
>
> is there a way for me to recover? i erased the lilo record of the
> previous
> kernel, was too cocky..i suppose hehehe. i have a nasty feeling i may
> have to
> say buh-bye to my data (may backup naman...pero sobra hassle), and just
> re-
> install the darned thing. which means i have to travel to makati
> sometime
> soon...and let myself freeze to death at infocom's server room (hehehe),
> while
> waiting for that darned server to re-install?
>
> any help would be appreciated. i was thinking more on the lines of
> booting to
> single user mode...drop the metadisk at /etc/fstab...and just using one
> of the
> disks...maybe the primary...just so that i have a working file
> system..and a
> server at that. wut u think? i'm really desperate.
>
> sheesh. what a way to spend holy week.
>
> vince.
>
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