Subject: Re: [vserver] Cant install vserver kernel
From: "Michael S. Zick" <mszick@morethan.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:40:46 -0500

On Sun October 11 2009, Eli @ Networx wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a CentOS 5.3 64-bit box.
> I'm following the instructions over here: 
> http://linux-vserver.org/Installation_on_CentOS to the letter.
> When I update the kernel I get version: kernel-2.6.22.19-vs2.3.0.34
> When I reboot, the system never comes back online. Since this is a 
> dedicated server out in a DC I do not see what is on the console. All 
> the technician tells me is that there was a kernel panic after an error 
> mounting switchroot.
> /var/log/messages has nothing about this, /var/log/boot.log is empty, so 
> that is all the error messages I have....
> 
> Did anyone ever run into such an issue? I have been googling for the 
> last couple hours yet cant find anything concrete.
> 
That sounds pretty general -

Something like either the /lib/modules/xxxx did not get populated or 
(less likely) the initrd did not get rebuilt during the install.

Bring it back up, ssh into it, browse around see if everything is
where you would expect it to be, including boot menu updates.

Mike
> Thanks,
> Eli
> 
>