kernel-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp fails to boot

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 11 18:31:27 UTC 2005


Dave Atkinson wrote:
> Similar to the thread entitled "Kernel panic after yum update" I get the
> following messages when trying to boot the kernel from the
> kernel-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp.i686.rpm package:
> 
> ...
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
> Mounted /proc filesystem
> Creating /dev
> Starting udev
> Loading scsi_mod.ko module
> SCSI subsystem initialised
> Loading sd_mod.ko module
> Loading aic7xxx.ko module
> Loading jdb.ko module
> Loading ext3.ko module
> Creating root device
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> Switching to new root
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init!
> 
> I tried recreating the initial ramdisk with mkinitrd, but the problem
> persisted.  I've rebuilt the package from the source SRPM, same problem.
> I'm currently booted on the uni-processor 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel, no
> problem (except it's so much slower due to the lack of smp... ;-).
> 
> Anyone kind enough to shed some light on this?

Do you get the same problem if you change the LABEL=/ entry in your 
/etc/fstab to refer to the actual root partition device (e.g. /dev/hda1)?

Paul.




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