Re: Re: [vserver] Centos kernel

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Sun 07 Nov 2010 - 13:29:00 GMT
Message-ID: <20101107132900.GD26952@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:43:45PM +0100, Roman Pretory wrote:

> which Kernel/patch whould you take.

defintely 2.6.36

> boot.log is empty how to fill, but I have screen shots

usually the bootup log can be captured via serial console
(which is strongly advised on a server setup anyways)
but if you have a complete set of screen shots it should
be fine as well (just make sure nothing is missing)

> Motherboard is a n3m78-vm
> Chipsatz: GeForce 8200

> THX Roman

best,
Herbert

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Herbert Poetzl [mailto:herbert@13thfloor.at]
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 07. November 2010 09:41
> An: Roman Pretory
> Cc: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org
> Betreff: [SPAM? 1.99] Re: [vserver] Centos kernel
>
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 03:23:31AM +0100, Roman Pretory wrote:
>
> > Hello
>
> > Have a system by a provider running fine with the Centos5.5,
>
> okay ...
>
> > but kernel.panic the the latest Kernel from
> > http://rpm.hozac.com/dhozac/centos/5/vserver/x86_64/
>
> the 'latest' kernel there is almost a year old, and
> IMHO not the best choice for a system nowadays, mainly
> because it will have several security issues discovered
> and fixed since in mainline
>
> in any case, upload the bootup log and resulting panic
> so that we can take a look what happens ...
>
> > What I found out it is a Asus board with AMD Chipset and
> > Northbridgeby nVidia Series mctr
>
> not the best choice, but should work with a recent kernel
>
> > Is there a way to patch the Centos kernel by using kernel.devel ??
>
> probably, you just need to adapt one of the old patches
> to you hybrid kernel and of course test/debug the result
>
> > 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5-x86_64 what for a patch version is to beused
>
> parts from 2.6.18 up to the recent kernels I guess, unless
> the centos folks got lazy and stopped backporting
>
> > same prozedure?
>
> same procedure as every year, roman!
>
> best,
> Herbert
>
> > THX
> > Roman
>
Received on Sun Nov 7 13:34:50 2010

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