[redhat-lspp] lspp 18 kernel released

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 13:46, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Crashes on boot.

There seems to be reports of something like this on the fedora-test-list as 
well. Apparently this showed up in 2137 kernel. This is a snippet from 
someone else's report:

>>  > > kernel-2.6.16-1.2141_FC6
>>  > > ------------------------
>>  > > * Wed Apr 19 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>>  > > - 2.6.17rc2-git1
>>  > > - Use unicode VTs by default.
>>  >
>>  > This kernel crashes on my machine at boot with the error
>>  >
>>  > device-mapper
>>  > Unable to access resume device /dev/Volgroup00....
>>  > mount command could not find filesystem /dev/root
>>  >
>>  > reverting back to 2.6.16-1.2136_FC6 fixed it.
>>
>> This is actually a broken lvm2/device-mapper problem.
>> Downgrade those to the versions that shipped with FC5, and
>> reinstall the kernel, and it'll boot just fine.
>>
>> (The reason the old kernel continued to work is because it
>>  still had the old versions of lvm2 in its initrd)
>>
>>               Dave
>>
>
>Sorry Dave, but that didn't fix it... using the following...
>
>device-mapper-1.02.02-3.2
>lvm2-2.02.01-1.2.1
>kernel-2.6.16-1.2136_FC6        - kernel boots fine
>kernel-2.6.16-1.2147_FC6        - kernel crash on mounting root. Device
>mapper is throwing out some really weird ids as well.

Does this sound about like what you are seeing?

-Steve