Subject: Re: [vserver] Centos kernel
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:34:11 +0000

Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 08/11/2010 22:21, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>>
>>> well, I wouldn't expect a 2.6.22 .config to work without
>>> modification for a 2.6.36 kernel, because kernel options
>>> change with every release, but it might also be a problem
>>> with your mkinitrd not putting the proper drivers into
>>> the initramfs
>> Last time I tried to use a newer kernel on CentOS 5.x, the latest I
>> could get working was 2.6.27. Anything newer than that was sufficiently
>> different to require a serious userspace update.
> 
> I'm running 2.6.32 without any problems. What kind of issues did you
> run in to?


Off the top of my head, initrd didn't build properly with later kernels 
and dm/md RAID was having issues, at least on my hardware.

Gordan