Re: [sisuite-users] FATAL : Kernel too old
Andrea, Thanks for the reply. I used the standard image and this was successful. All our machines are HP Proliant DL/ML servers with Smart Array controllers(ie /dev/cciss). We currently have a mix of RHEL3/4 with the RHEL3 machines using the 2.4 kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrea, Thanks for the reply. What options do I have ? - Try and boot using the standard(included) kernel ? For this you should try to install the systemimager-boot-standard-3.9.6 in your image server before, to have more chances for your hw to be properly recognized. After the install remember to update your kernel+initrd.img in your /tftpboot and restart the systemimager-bittorrent daemons (only if you're using the BT transport). A problem you can find with this approach is that in recent kernels the IDE disk naming schema has changed and all these devices are now mapped in /dev/sd* (look for hda - sda transition problem in google for details). So, if you're using an old kernel (actually 2.4 is old in any case), one or more IDE disks and you're not using UUIDs or LABELs in your autoinstallscript.conf probably you can find some problems during the first reboot. - Try an boot using a uyok from a similar machine using a 2.6 kernel. Will this work ? Yes, this is another valid solution, to try with a different boot package made with a 2.6 kernel. The hda - sda problem is still valid. - Build from source on the 2.4 machine. This looks like the cleanest solution. I have downloaded the 3.9.6 tar source however I'm not sure how to build the rpm's. I have looked at the online docs rpmbuild -ta tarball however after looking at the Makefile I see a rpm target which does a rpmbuild -tb. Also my machines are behind a firewall and can only connect to the internet via a proxy. This would be the cleanest solution, but one of the 2 solutions above is surely quicker. Wouldn't virtulization allow you to build both glibc versions on the same platform ? Yes, but since the build server is my laptop: 1) I don't have enough disk space free 2) probably the building process would require an entire night... :-) -Andrea - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] FATAL : Kernel too old
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just attempted to PXE boot a HP Proliant ML370 G2 with systemimager 3.9.6 and received the following kernel panic : Freeing unused kernel memory : 164k freed FATAL: Kernel too old Kernel panic : Attempting to kill init ! That's because the glibc into the initrd.img are build using the linux-2.6 headers (our build machine is a Ubuntu 7.04 host), that means your 2.4 kernel is not compatible. See also: http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-January/013500.html To resolve you should build systemimager from source using your 2.4 machine, in order to have a compatible version of glibc in your initrd.img. For us this is a very difficult issue to resolve: first of all we should find 2 build machines for each arch (one with 2.4 kernel and another with a 2.6 kernel), and then we should build 2 different versions for each arch of the packages systemimager-initrd_template and systemimager-boot-standard... -Andrea - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] FATAL : Kernel too old
Andrea Righi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just attempted to PXE boot a HP Proliant ML370 G2 with systemimager 3.9.6 and received the following kernel panic : Freeing unused kernel memory : 164k freed FATAL: Kernel too old Kernel panic : Attempting to kill init ! That's because the glibc into the initrd.img are build using the linux-2.6 headers (our build machine is a Ubuntu 7.04 host), that means your 2.4 kernel is not compatible. See also: http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-January/013500.html To resolve you should build systemimager from source using your 2.4 machine, in order to have a compatible version of glibc in your initrd.img. For us this is a very difficult issue to resolve: first of all we should find 2 build machines for each arch (one with 2.4 kernel and another with a 2.6 kernel), and then we should build 2 different versions for each arch of the packages systemimager-initrd_template and systemimager-boot-standard... Added a comment in the troubleshooting guide: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#FATAL:_Kernel_too_old For now this is the best we can do... -Andrea - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
Re: [sisuite-users] FATAL : Kernel too old
Andrea, Thanks for the reply. What options do I have ? - Try and boot using the standard(included) kernel ? - Try an boot using a uyok from a similar machine using a 2.6 kernel. Will this work ? - Build from source on the 2.4 machine. This looks like the cleanest solution. I have downloaded the 3.9.6 tar source however I'm not sure how to build the rpm's. I have looked at the online docs rpmbuild -ta tarball however after looking at the Makefile I see a rpm target which does a rpmbuild -tb. Also my machines are behind a firewall and can only connect to the internet via a proxy. Wouldn't virtulization allow you to build both glibc versions on the same platform ? Thanks David K Livingstone CN Signals and Communications 10229 127 Avenue floor 2 Edmonton, AB, T5E 0B9 Ph : 780 472-3959 Fax : 780 472-3050 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea Righi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007/09/14 02:31 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Please respond to sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject Re: [sisuite-users] FATAL : Kernel too old Andrea Righi wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just attempted to PXE boot a HP Proliant ML370 G2 with systemimager 3.9.6 and received the following kernel panic : Freeing unused kernel memory : 164k freed FATAL: Kernel too old Kernel panic : Attempting to kill init ! That's because the glibc into the initrd.img are build using the linux-2.6 headers (our build machine is a Ubuntu 7.04 host), that means your 2.4 kernel is not compatible. See also: http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-January/013500.html To resolve you should build systemimager from source using your 2.4 machine, in order to have a compatible version of glibc in your initrd.img. For us this is a very difficult issue to resolve: first of all we should find 2 build machines for each arch (one with 2.4 kernel and another with a 2.6 kernel), and then we should build 2 different versions for each arch of the packages systemimager-initrd_template and systemimager-boot-standard... Added a comment in the troubleshooting guide: http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Troubleshooting#FATAL:_Kernel_too_old For now this is the best we can do... -Andrea - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
