Kernel PANIC: pivot_root fails on boot

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Mon Aug 2 23:23:37 UTC 2004


Am Di, den 03.08.2004 schrieb Bert Buckley - Uniq Software/Systems um
1:23:

> I am running Fedora Core 1.  I recently had the system crash,
> which is of course most unusual.  After the crash, I cannot reboot,
> even though the file systems are clean.
> 
> Some details:
> 
> Error on attempted boot:
> 
> 	pivot_root: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> 
> Last successful command before failure:
> 
> 	kjournald...Commit 5 secs
> 	EXT3-fs mounted with ordered data mode.

> Bert

Be sure /initrd directory exists with following permissions:

$ ls -ld /initrd/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096  7. Okt 2003  /initrd/

Alexander

P.S. Update to latest FC1 kernel .2197.


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