core 4 upgrade question

[Hans Kristian Rosbach]

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 11:04 -0500, Raymond Norton wrote:
> I attempted the upgrade with core 4 and the unofficial core 4.1. With Core
> 4 I get a message "Kernel panic, not syncing- Attempted to kill init"

You say upgrade here..
I don't think that is recommended at all in any case.

(I too tried it once despite others saying no-no, didn't work..)

> With 4.1 I get "Ramdisk: Couldn't find valid ramdisk image starting at 0
> 
> Can't open Root Device "NULL" or unknown block (104,3)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> 
> Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root file system on unknown
> block (104,3)"
> 
> They both seem to have a problem with the megaraid card. If it makes a
> difference in diagnosing things the server is a Supermicro, not a
> Visionman, as I first stated.

My guess would be that the upgrade messed things up.

If you try a fresh install I think it would look a lot better.

-HK