Cannot find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 24 12:29:12 UTC 2009


2009/2/24 Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com>:
> As the subject says I get the following error with F11 Alpha: "Cannot
> find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a
> shell. Good luck!" I tried a custom livecd with rawhide as of
> 23.02.2009 and got the same behaviour. The plymouth starts and the
> modesetting works, when using debug at startup the kernel boots and
> detects most of my hardware and then comes this error message.
>
> I then made a custom F10 livecd with the 2.6.29.rc kernel and got the
> same error. I changed the kernel to 2.6.28 and rebuild the livecd with
> same components as before (they were cached at the first build) and
> everything worked just fine. This makes me think that the error comes
> from the kernel itself, but there are no kernel-oops at startup and
> when building the livecd the kernel installs without errors.
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Any ideas? Should I file a bug report?
> Against which package?
>

A bug report has already been filed:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458597 on July, 10 but
there is still no fix for this.




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