Kernel panic

[Danny Ciarniello]

Mark Haney wrote:

> Okay, I've been through this before with FC4.  I just upgraded a 
> system from Fc2 to FC5 and the upgrade went just fine until I 
> rebooted.  Now, I'm getting the dreaded
>
> Kernel panic - attempt to kill init
>
> message on boot.  There's also a bizarre message saying there was no 
> disk in /dev/hdd?  What's the deal here?
>
>
I got something similar installing with reiser and without selinux.  
Check /boot/grub/grub.conf.  Does the kernel line have root=LABEL=/ ?  
Is there a matching line in fstab?  If so, try changing the LABEL=/ in 
both to the actual device (/dev/hdd?).

Hope this helps.
Dan.