Wrong kernel selected during boot during RAID testing
I used a sarge amd64 netinst image to configure a two-disk system
with two RAID1s, one of which is a mount point for /boot and one of
which is used as a physical volume for LVM.
I had experimented with the sarge amd64 installer, the sid amd64
installer, and the Ubuntu amd64 installer trying to get this setup
working. Eventually, once I thought I had the partitioning process
figured out, I returned to sarge.
So I go through the installation process from scratch once again,
trying to clear out everything and rebuild my partitions. sarge
chooses grub as a bootloader, which is fine with me. I reboot,
everything comes up clean, and I go through base-config. Then I shut
down. At this point, the server is using the default 2.6.8 amd64-
generic kernel that comes with the distro.
Now I remove one of the two drives while the box is cold and start
the machine. When it boots, there's an error about not finding the
map for the kernel and somehow it finds a 2.6.12 kernel and boots
with that, but none of the modules are there because the box was
built and installed with a 2.6.8 kernel. So when it comes up, it's
running the wrong kernel and has no networking.
Where did this kernel come from, and how can I remove it? I feel like
it must be a vestige of my installer experimentation, but I don't
know how to clean the drives any more thoroughly during the
partitioning stage of the sarge installer.
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Thomas F. O'Connell
Database Architecture and Programming
Co-Founder
Sitening, LLC
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