Kernic panic when booting 2.6.9-11ELSmp

[Will McDonald]

Check the changelog for the kernel rpm, you might find support for the
Perc 4 controller's been dropped. If that's the case then the initial
ramdisk (initrd) won't have a suitable driver it can use to talk to
the RAID which is why it can't read the label on the device.

$ rpm -qa | grep kernel

Find the most recent one, the one you're having problems with then do...

$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-smp.blah | less

This may shed some light too...

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg06164.html

Will.


On 6/12/05, jan.peuker at lst-deutschland.de <jan.peuker at lst-deutschland.de> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am facing a strange problem when booting the new 2.6.9-11ELSmp Kernel on my DELL PE1800. Actually, the problem occurs on every kernel except the one firstly installed (2.6.9-5).
> When booting, I get the following messages:
> 
> Loading ext3.ko module
> Creating root-device
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> Mouting root filesystem
> mount: error 2 mount ext3
> mount: error 2 mount none
> Switching to new root
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> unmount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init!
> 
> First I thought it may be a naming problem - but grub.conf is configured correctly with the same line for all kernels:
> kernel /vmlinuz-<version> ro root=LABEL=/ apic
> 
> And fstab tells me that the drive is configured correctly as well and running ext3 (which is a loaded module). The root(hd0,2) is on a Perc4-RAID5-Logical Volume. Could this be the problem? Am I missing anything on this beautiful sunday?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> jan
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