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Hi List Members! |
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Please be gentle, this is my first post. |
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I admin an NEC Express5800 / 120RC-2 with an Adaptec i2o 2110S raid controller. (All controller bios, firmware up-to-date) |
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The previous colleauge who took care of this machine hacked a kernel together that worked in a week...(patching a vanilla kernel with grsec, but that was more then an year ago). |
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I had one night. |
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I refreshed all packages, and started upgrading the kernel. The hardened-sources failed to detect the adapter. |
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(Not from this machine's output:) |
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Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go |
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Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers... |
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----- and then skipped the next part: |
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:05.1[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 |
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Of course the kernel panicked without a root fs. |
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I tried with: |
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linux-2.6.14-hardened-r8 |
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linux-2.6.16-hardened-r10 |
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Messed around with the new i2o subsystem, tried passing such flags as pci=routeirq, to no avail. Looked around in BIOS, nothing outstanding. |
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Then used linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r12, which booted flawlessly. |
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Then tried patching this kernel, from the hardened-patches-2.6.16-8.extras.tar.bz2 patchset with: |
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4454_pax_curr_ip-fixes.patch |
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4450_grsec-2.1.9-2.6.16.19-200606041421.patch |
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Nothing more. Same panic. |
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Then my time ran out. The machine now runs the stock gentoo kernel, but I'd love to use the hardened, to complement my hardened profile. |
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All comments are welcome! |
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Regards, |
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Lorand Kelemen |
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