Kernel or Grub

Ernest L. Williams Jr. ernesto at ornl.gov
Sat Jun 18 00:12:07 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 01:01 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 00:20 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
> > OK, I have found a very reproducible issue on my system. Don't know for sure
> > if it is a Grub issue or Kernel. I believe that it is Grub because I have
> > four Kernels on my system and all produce the same response now.
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> > audit(1114645171.238:0):initialized
> > Red Hat nash version 4.2.8 starting
> > ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 417)
> > ata2: disabling port
> > ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 481)
> >   Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> >   No volume groups found
> >   Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> > ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 483)
> > mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> > ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> > error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> > unmounting old /proc
> > unmounting old /sys
> > switchroot: mount failed: 22
> > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > 
> > What is the opinion of this forum?
> 
> Neither -- udev was updated and had a broken udevstart.static, so the
> initrd failed to make /dev .
> 
> (also, this was fixed in the rawhide-20050427 tree this morning)


In the official release of Fedora Core 4, this problem exists and stops
me cold.  Please, tell me how to get Fedora Core 4 working?


Thanks,
Ernest



> 
> -- 
>         Peter
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