fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 12 12:34:52 UTC 2004
David V Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:47 -0400, wrote:
>
>>Message: 4
>>Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:48:12 -0500
>>From: Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net>
>>Subject: Cannot boot to any kernel since yesterday's updates
>>To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>>Message-ID: <4118FC4C.6020707 at earthlink.net>
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>>
>>As described in
>>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-
>>August/msg00251.html,
>>kernel 2.6.7-1.509 has a kernel panic.
>>
>>The other kernels, 503, 501, 499 and 494 now all stall on "Mounting
>>USB
>>filesystem". Some of these kernels had this problem in the past, but
>>until yesterday, kernel 503 was working great on my system. It
>>doesn't
>>matter if I have any USB media inserted. Either way, it will not get
>>past that init line.
>>
>>I don't know how to fix the problem so that I can boot to FC3T1 and
>>continue testing. Any suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Gerry Tool
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Kernel 509 also does not boot for me. messages are
>
> . . .
> Red Hat nash version 4.0.0 starting
> mkrootdev: label not found
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> switchroot: mount failed : 22
> kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
>
> System required reset to restart, previous versions of the kernel boot
> and function.
>
> System configuration
> Athlon 64 2800+
> 512 M
> SATA (system drive)
> MSI-K8TM (Motherboard)
> IDE ( 20MB & DVD-RW - both master on each channel)
>
>
Try removing "rhgb quiet" from the kernel line in grub.conf. That
allowed me to boot without the kernel panic. I got the hint in a recent
bugzilla report.
Gerry Tool
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