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

[Chris Merrill]

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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