<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.6944.0"> <TITLE>policy-1.9.2-9 causes kernel panic during boot</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  In my FC2T2 system, I upgraded from policy-1.9.2-5 to policy-1.9.2-9 and ended up with (as I recall) the following files in /etc/security/selinux: file_contexts file_contexts.rpmnew policy. pllicy.16.rpmsave With no guidance on what to do, I renamed file_contexts.rpmnew to file_contexts, but I left the policy files as they were. Upon booting, init would fail to load the policy, this would be immediately followed by a kernel panic. Could I have renamed one of the policy files to recover? I have since re-installed FC2T2 (just for the practice). By the way, in the above situation, appending "selinux=0" to the kernel parameters in the grub boot screen wouldn't allow me to recover. It still attempted to load the policy; a kernel panic would again result. Does this parameter actually do anything? Fred New </BODY> </HTML>