[TriLUG] RedHat 7.3-->9 upgrade question -- FOLLOWUP

Chris Merrill cmerrill at nc.rr.com
Thu Jun 12 08:12:01 EDT 2003


Thanks to all who replied!  Some suggested that this machine would not be
capable of running RH9.  Others suggested it might...with more memory
(it actually has 128M, not the 96M I stated in my original post).  And
another suggested I try the installer in text mode.

In the end, none of these things mattered...because the boot floppy
encounters a kernel panic before things get very far.

I've decided to put this old P120 to rest...this was the final nail in
it's coffin.  I've got a PII/350 sitting around doing nothing.  I've
stuck with the P120 this far because the HD powers down whenever inactive
making it nearly silent.  The newer box sounds like a jet -- I'll have to
stick it in a closet.

Anyway, I am posting my results (with the kernel panic message below) for
posterity (and google).

Thanks for the help!
Chris

Chris Merrill wrote:
> My home server is currently on RH 7.3.  I use it as a firewall,
> wireless gateway and web/mail server...so besides the core kernel
> and network functions, I use Apache, Postfix and Mailman.  I need
> a feature in the latest release of Mailman - and the list of
> required packages started to balloon very quickly.  So I guess
> it's time for an upgrade.
 >
> I have 2 questions:
> 1) Should I upgrade to RH8 first?...or go straight to RH9?
> 2) Will I see a significant increase in resource requirements?
>    The machine is a P-120 (yes, really!) with 96M.  Will the upgrade
>    add new stuff or just upgrade the existing packages?  I've done
>    upgrades before, but never paid too much attention, since the
>    machines were not hardware-constrained.

Here was the kernel panic message:
EIP is at  (2.4.20-8BOOT)
eax: 00000008   ebx: c02f5508   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000cfd
esi: c02f55b0   edi: c02f5500   ebp: c02f55b0   esp: c1547f24
ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1547000)
Stack: c01a62d0 c02f55b0 ffffffff 00000001 08b400f0 c02f5508 c02f55b0 00000000
        0000000f c01a1410 c02f55b0 00000008 c02f55b0 000000ff c02f55b0 c02f5500
        c01a44e2 c02f55b0 000000ff 00000246 00000001 c02f5500 00000000 00000000
Call Trace:   [<c01a62d0>]  (0xc1547f24))
[<c01a>]  (0xc1547f))
[<c01a1410>]  (0xc1547f48))
[<c01a44e2>]  (0xc1547f64))
[<c01a4f2e>]  (0xc1547f84))
[<c0105028>]  (0xc1547fd8))
[<c0105033>]  (0xc1547fdc))
[<c0105028>]  (0xc1547fe0))
[<c0106fc1>]  (0xc1547ff0))
Code:   Bad EIP value:
  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!



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