Re: kernel panic with 2.4.26

imran shaik <sk.imran-/[email protected]> wrote:  
Hi Tim,
  I shall try that out too.
  
  Thanks
  
  Cheers,
  Imran
Tim Gruene <[email protected]> wrote:  Maybe it is of interest, we are using SuSE 9.0 with openmosix without
problems (openmosix/linux vanilla 2.4.22, because we never bothered to
update the running system).

I would rather compile any filesystem driver into the kernel and not as
module. This way you do not need an initrd (I even disable ram disk
support) minimising sources of problems.

Tim
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, imran shaik wrote:

> Hi kris,
>   First let me thank for your reply.
>   I tried to make mkinitrd on Suse 9.3 only,as i dont have any other lower version of   it. :-(
>
>  When i hit mkinitrd as you said, it fails to load the filessytem  modules(mine is reiserfs,piixreiserfs file not found error comes). Even  though i show the lib modules path, mkinitrd was not successful.Some  image gets created and when i boot with that...kernel panic!!
>
>  Also openmosix is not able to start as a service too. It says /proc/hpc  not found. Really such a folder is never created in Suse 9.3 and it is  created in RadHat. Such is folder is openmosix kernel specific or  Operating system kernel specific.?
>
>   I shall try on suse9.1 as soon as i get that, and let the group know.
>
>   Regards,
>   Imran
>
>
>
> Kris Buytaert  wrote:  On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 00:48 -0800, imran shaik wrote:
> > Hi kris,
> >  I am using SuSE 9.3 on my machine.
> > I tried mkinitrd with openmosix 2.4.26 kernel.But its not able to
> >   resolve dependencies. Any suggestions??
> >
>
> Might I suggest you downgrad your Suse Distribution heavily ..   Suse
> 9.3 is not 2.4 compliant anymore (or at least not out of the box)  and
> openMosix 2.6 is still in heavy beta.
>
>
> > I also tried 2.6.15 and it writes a broken link to my /boot directory.
> > I tried booting it as a seperate kernel, but i get" kernel
> > panic...cant mount VFS 00:03" error.
> >
> > I tried 2.4.26 in redhat 9 and things work fine. Initrd is
> > automatically created and has proper links. No problems.
> >
> > 1)will  2.4.26 tools work with 2.6.15?
> No , never.
>
> > 2)Can you suggest any installable versions of linux that come with
> > openmosix?
> I don't think any come with openMosix, but you will be fine with a
> 2.4.26 openMosix on e.g a Fedora Core 1, or Suse version of that   age.
>
> > 3)Is there any way to make bccd installable?
> >
> Dunno.
>
>
> > If you can suggest any procedure to  make initrd on SuSE 9.3 or 10,
> > with openmosix 2.6.15 , it would be helpful.
> >
> The way I documented below is how it works on a Centos 4 platform,  I
> don't have any Suse distribution more recent than a 8.2 handy so maybe
> you could tell me which part of the below stuff doesn't work on your
> Suse,  that way I can see what's wrong.
>
> greetz
>
> Kris
>
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Imran
> >
> >
> > Kris Buytaert  wrote:
> >         On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 19:53 -0800, imran shaik wrote:
> >         > Hi Kris,
> >         > Thanks for your timely response.
> >         > Could you pls let me know the procedure to   make initrd for
> >         openMosix
> >         > and the files necessary fort the same?.
> >         >
> >
> >
> >         mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-openmosixbeta.img
> >         2.6.15-openmosixbeta
> >
> >
> >         For more info please read the mkinitrd man pages.
> >
> >         You might notice that you need to move
> >         the /lib/modules/2.6.15-openmosixbeta-om
> >         to /lib/modules/2.6.15-openmosixbeta
> >
> >         greetings
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >         > Thanks in advance,
> >         >
> >         > Regards,
> >         > Imran
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Kris Buytaert  wrote:
> >         > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:38 -0800, imran shaik wrote:
>   >         > > Hi suman,
> >         > > I too faced the same problem when i installed the latest
> >         > openmosix
> >         > > 2.6.25 beta.
> >         > > using an rpm. The installation was successful. But the
> >         > initrd file was
> >         > > missing. There was a link to it, but the original file was
> >         > missing. I
> >         > > too got the same kernel panic message.
> >         > >
> >         > > Are you able to solve the problem, if yes please let me
> >         > know.
> >         > >
> >         > That's actually expected behaviour as you should create your
> >         > own initrd
> >         > with mkinird.
> >         >
> >         > greetz
> >         >
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