Rawhide: kernel panic 2.6.19-1.2912.fc7 in VMware

[Liu Wenfeng]

Vnpenguin <vnpenguin <at> vnoss.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> I use VMplayer to run FC6 guest OS on Windows XP. Yesterday, I
> upgraded FC6 to FC7 (rawhide). Upgrading process is ok , but now I
> can't boot with kernel 2.6.19-1.2912.fc7:
> 
> ...
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1 sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0 Attached scsi disk sda
> Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I can boot without any problem with FC6 latest updated kernel.
> 
> Anyone has ideas to fix it ?
> 
> Thank you,
> 

I met the same issue on my system and worked it out by re-generate an initrd 
image with some more modules inclusion. The following is the command line for 
generating initrd-2.6.19.img:

mkinitrd --force-ide-probe –-force-scsi-probe --force-lvm-probe --with=uhci-
hdc --with=ohci-hcd --with=ehci-hcd --with=jbd --with=ext3 --with=scsi_mod -–
with=sd_mod --with=libata --with=ata_piix /boot/initrd-2.6.19.img 2.6.19

Wenfeng