Failed to upgrade the kernel

[Dmitriy]

Hello,

I'm trying to upgrade my FC3 dual cpu server to FC4 as it described at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq. To avoid 'kernel requires
kernel-utils (or vice-versa)' problem I did

yum update kernel-smp
reboot

and I got:

mkrootdev: label / not found
mounting root filesystem
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
mount: erro2 mounting none
switching to newroot
switchroot: mount failed:22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

At this point, the server kernel panicked.

The old one (2.6.11-1.27_FC3) still boots correctly!

Additional info:

[root at mercury boot]# more /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda2               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb1  /sdb  ext3  defaults  0  0
/dev/hda                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

[root at mercury ~]# more /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 997.294
cache size      : 256 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1961.98

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 997.294
cache size      : 256 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1990.65

[root at mercury ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)

[root at mercury ~]# more /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      1034684 kB
MemFree:        507824 kB
Buffers:         99924 kB
Cached:         199596 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         289328 kB
Inactive:        74900 kB
HighTotal:      131072 kB
HighFree:          160 kB
LowTotal:       903612 kB
LowFree:        507664 kB
SwapTotal:      522104 kB
SwapFree:       522104 kB
Dirty:              60 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:          73648 kB
Slab:           147976 kB
CommitLimit:   1039444 kB
Committed_AS:   745996 kB
PageTables:       5700 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      2136 kB
VmallocChunk:   112184 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              17G  5.5G   10G  36% /
/dev/sda1              99M  9.9M   84M  11% /boot
none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1              17G   11G  5.9G  64% /sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2231.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 18.3 GB, 18351959040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14          78      522112+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3              79        2231    17293972+  83  Linux


  

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Best regards,
 Dmitriy                          mailto:fedora-list at mobilefishgames.com