>
> 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.
>
wow. yun na ang penitensya mo. freezing at infocom. hehehe.
> 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).
>
well one way is to statically compile in the megaraid and scsi drivers
into your kernel. that way they will be detected on bootup.
> have a great holy week to you all...God bless.
>
> vince.
>
>
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> >
> > 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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