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

[Joshua C.]

2009/2/24 M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Joshua C. wrote:
>
>> 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!"
>>
>> 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.
>
> The problem is that that error message doesn't say much more than "an error
> occurred". Clearly something went wrong during the boot but that doesn't say
> what it is. Removing boot line options such as quiet and rhgb might give you
> a better idea of the cause of the problem.
>
>        Michael Young
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I tried removing those parameters and didn't get any useful
information. There are no kernel-oops. It starts detecting the
hardware, goes through it, and just before starting udev it stops.
Pressing any key gives you bash-4 terminal. acpi=off and other kernel
boot-options didn't show anything either.

It's just somthing with mkinitrd that causes the problem. As I said
f10 with kernel 2.6.27 works fine but cannot boot with 2.6.29.rc.
bacause of this error. See the bug report for more info.