custom kernel

[cyberthug]

im havng problems i did the howto that BehaartesEtwas made and have done it a million times

but i have a different server now with these specs
Dual Intel Xeon 3.06
PROCESSOR SPEED:3.06 GHZ x 2
DISK SPACE:4x 36GB 10,000 RPM SCSI on raid1
MEMORY:4GB RAM

i think its the SCSI drives but not sure
here is a pic of the errors i get

[Peter_Pan123]

use an other kernel ^^

[cyberthug]

like what kernel iv tried others

[Terrorkarotte]

Your system can not moount the harddrive. Most likely a driver is missing. "Volume group (....) not found" is the error you should look into.
Either you deselected or forgot to select needed drivers/modules or 2.6.26 does not support the hardware you have.
Which distro are you using and what is its standart kernel? Does that one boot?

[cyberthug]

Which distro are you using and what is its standart kernel? centos 5.5
stock kernel is 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5PAE and it boots fine

[Terrorkarotte]

As I wrote before you need to look into "VolGroup00 not found"
I just googled that term and found plenty forum threads describing your problem and how to solve it.

[Peter_Pan123]

2.6.18-194.11.4.el5PAE most of this std kernels have special drivers in it with lots of patches thats why it works!
if you want to use a custom kernel you need to compile a newer one for newer hardware.

[BehaartesEtwas]

can you post us the output of "lspci" (after booting e.g. with the default kernel)? that could help identifying the drivers to install.

unless you have very strange hardware I would think you simply have to enable the right driver in the kernel. I have never seen a new kernel not running on some hardware when an older was running...

[Peter_Pan123]

for a try take the config of the 2.6.18 and use it for the newer one compile it and it should work.

[cyberthug]

[root@server1 src]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7501 Memory Controller Hub (rev 01)
00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Host RASUM Controller (rev 01)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Hub Interface C PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 01)
00:03.1 Class ff00: Intel Corporation E7500/E7501 Hub Interface C RASUM Controller (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CA LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CA Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:0c.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
02:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
02:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
02:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
03:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
03:07.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
04:07.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 w/HostRAID (rev 03)
04:07.1 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AIC-7902 U320 w/HostRAID (rev 03)

[BehaartesEtwas]

Your hard disk is at the raid controller? Then you must compile its driver fixed into the kernel (not as a module). I think this is "Adaptec AIC79xx U320 support" in Device Drivers / SCSI device support / SCSI low-level drivers. Also enable "SCSI disk support" (in SCSI device support).

Make sure you select those things with [*] not with [M].

You will also need to compile the driver for the root file system as [*]. Use the "mount" command without options if you don't know which file system is used. Then localize its driver in "File systems" and make it have a <*>.

PS: what kind of Xeon is that exactly? The chipset looks quite old, I could imagine the CPU is some netburst Pentium 4 based Xeon. You might not have very much fun with it. It's quite slow...

[cyberthug]

ok tring this now