2.6.10-1.12_FC2

John Logsdon j.logsdon at quantex-research.com
Tue Feb 15 15:04:00 UTC 2005


I have rebuilt the initrd image --with=reiserfs (no .ko) but I still get a
kernel panic:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Kernel panic -  not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(3,2)

I named the initrd as initrd.custom.img and it is in the /boot directory
and added

initrd /initdd.custom.img to the grub line

but still a bombout.

In fact during a 2.6.5 bootup, it is clearly loading the reiserfs module
from dmesg:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: using ordered data mode

etc etc

It is a bit annoying when earlier kernels worked OK only for RH/Fedora to
change within a release - I could understand it better if this was when
going to FC3 for example.  

I have now changed the boot partition to ext3 (ie copied it, mkfs.ext3
/dev/hda1 copied it back and re-installed grub - the grub.conf is the
same) but I still get the same kernel panic although I can boot it back in
the 2.6.5 kernel OK.

Further clues?

TIA

John

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