RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread nate
Steven Haigh wrote: > I have a bit of trouble with this, as the only person that can do it is > around 30 minutes travel from the colo. As the system boots, I'm thinking of > writing a script that will gather this, then reboot the system after > changing the default=x line in /etc/grub.conf - howe

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 14:57 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > There are a number of differences in the initrd, although nothing that I > would call obvious as causing an issue.. > > - > # gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more > 6097 blocks > bin > ... > sys >

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-14 Thread Wojtek Pilorz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:08:54PM +1100, Steven Haigh wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of nate > > Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 2:46 PM > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [Cen

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of nate > Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 2:46 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network. > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: >

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread nate
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > I also got this type of probles once before. pls check initrd image. > pls performe below steps. > While it's always good to make sure your initrd is in a good state, the network drivers don't need to be in the initrd (unless your booting from NFS or something). They c

RE: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Steven Haigh
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Indunil Jayasooriya Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2008 2:34 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network. > After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated one > of m

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

2008-02-13 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
> After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated one > of my colo boxes and rebooted. It didn't come back up and fails when booting > on: > * CPU Microcode update > * iptables > * eth0 > > The booting process completes, however as you can imagine, t