Hello, Sir. My name is Hiroyuki Kudo. I have a problem using ext3 in my system DELL PowerEdge 1550. I recently installed RedHat 7.2 (kernel-2.4.7-2) and found that it used ext3. Later, since I needed to use nfsv4, I got kernel-2.4.4-nfsv4. But it didn't start up and saying `kernel panic` What is wrong with it? If the problem can be cleared with ext3-patch, how can I do it? ----------------------------------- Hiroyuki Kudo Fujitsu Prime Software Technologies Ltd. Nagoya, Japan e-mail <h-kudo@pst.fujitsu.com> operations --------- cd /usr/src/ rm linux linux.org tar zxvf nfsv4-01-07-16.tar.gz ln -s linux-2.4.4-nfsv4 linux-2.4 ln -s linux-2.4.4-nfsv4 linux cd /usr/include/ rm linux linux-org rm asm asm-org ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/asm asm cd /usr/src/linux-2.4/ make distclean make menuconfig make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install cp System.map /boot/System.map-nfsv4 cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-nfsv4 cd /boot/grub vi grub.conf (add list for vmlinuz-nfsv4) :wq reboot ... kernel panic
Hi, On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:32:37PM +0900, Hiroyuki Kudo wrote:> My name is Hiroyuki Kudo. > I have a problem using ext3 in my system DELL PowerEdge 1550. > I recently installed RedHat 7.2 (kernel-2.4.7-2) and found that it > used ext3. Later, since I needed to use nfsv4, I got > kernel-2.4.4-nfsv4. But it didn't start up and saying `kernel panic` > What is wrong with it?You haven't told us when the panic occurred, or where, or what other log messages were associated with it, so it is nearly impossible to debug this: we need more information. However, my guess is that your root filesystem is ext3, and you didn't do a clean shutdown, so when you rebooted to the 2.4.4 nfsv4 kernel (which does NOT have ext3), the kernel couldn't mount root. Cheers, Stephen