mkinitrd-4.0.0-1 might be broken

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:51:04AM -0700, Steve G wrote:
> 
> I built the latest from rawhide and installed the 503 kernel. I did a:
> 
>  mkinitrd  vmlinuz 2.6.7-1.503.build
> 
> And rebooted the system. On the way up, I got a message saying the "switchroot
> mount failed" and it panic'ed. Removing the mkinitrd package and backtracking to
> mkinitrd-3.5.24-1 fixed the problem.

It may be new initrd.  See, for example,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129057

or searching for a label had problems for some other reasons.  Did
you try to boot with 'root=<explicit_device>'?  See

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129120

Although in this case switching to an "old-style" initrd did not help.

   Michal