Re: SILO question
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:28:57PM +0200, Markus Pfeifer wrote:
>
> hi all, hi ben,
>
> > SILO doesn't need an option for that. Sounds to me like you are booting
> > a kernel that doesn't support ext3. At the SILO prompt type "ls /boot"
> > and make sure that you are booting the right kernel image.
>
> yes you where right. thx. i was not using the right kernel. but it is stranger.
> maybe it is a bug? if i look at /vmlinux (the one it should boot) it is there,
> but not working, so i booted /vmlinux-old and that worked. this machine is
> administred by 4 people and noone touched it. what happened was that yesterday
> the machine (it's DHCP/NFS/install/apt-get-server for our inyternal network)
> didn't react anymore. in /var/log/messages i get many:
>
> Apr 10 15:37:21 krombakje kernel: Run out of nocached RAM!
>
> and the errormesg below. i wasn't able to login anymore and after that it
> stopped to react. so i swicthed it off, and after that it didn't boot
> anymore. is this a known bug? shall i file one?
I'd toss that oops into ksymoops and email the output to
sparclinux@vger.kernel.org.
AFA the kernel switching weirdness, I'd say that somehow the old kernel
got re-installed during the uptime, and no one realized it. Not exactly
sure, but it has to be some sort of goofiness on your end :)
Ben
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