Hi, today I wanted to downgrade my running OpenVZ Server from the unstable 2.6.24.005.1 to stable 2.6.18.028.056.1. The Problem is that my sata controller wasn't detected within the the 2.6.18.X OpenVZ Kernel. On the 2.6.24.X kernel series there is no problem with the controller. I tried to compile EVERY available controller into the Kernel but it just didn't work out. Now I'm stuck with the 2.6.24.X kernel series. Is there a chance to get the old kernel running since I'm experiencing some kernel oops in the newer one. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:07:06 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/je_fro /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.20.30.25/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv isdnlog jpeg midi mmx mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tiff unicode xinerama xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptic evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Well, there are three flavors of openvz kernels in the tree currently: 1. Based on vanilla kernel http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/2.6.18 2. Based on vanilla kernel + RHEL5 patchset http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5 3. Development openvz kernel http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/2.6.24 1 is stable. 2. is unstable and 3 is hardmasked. Note: number 3 is hardmasked so it's for those who really need 2.6.24 kernel and is not afraid of development kernels... The difference between 1. and 2. is that RHEL developers backport drivers for new hardware. So 2. supports more hardware then 1 and 2 is what you need. Try 2.6.18.028.057.2 kernel - it should support your driver. But don't forgive to read notice at the end of kernel install. It's not a trivial task to build it so take kernel config file from upstream and then disable what you don't need there... Resolving as upstream as it's their work to release new kernel finally which will support all new hardware without this crappy RHEL patches.
