Bug 161835

Summary:	Kernel can't read disk labels, panics on boot
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ted Kaczmarek <tedkaz>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4	CC:	wtogami
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Description Ted Kaczmarek 2005-06-27 17:04:00 UTC

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Description of problem:
Attempting a yum upgrade from fc3 to fc4, can't get the fc4 kernel to boot, keeps giving me unable to mount "/" becuase it can't read the disk label. e2label shows /dev/sda2 as "/", 2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp boots fine. I have gcc, glibc and for kicks e2fsprogs updated to fc4 versions. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.FC3>>FC4 yum
2.kernal can't mount "/"
3.
  

Actual Results:  Kernel panic

Expected Results:  Kernel mounts "/" and continues boot up process.

Additional info:

Going to experiment some more see what I can come up with, the box is a tyan 2462 SMP, two scsi, two ide drives with burner and cd rom installed. Will try kernel.org kernel as well.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-06-27 17:58:34 UTC

first guess - the initrd is broken. Can you try removing that kernel, and
reinstalling it (I assume you have the FC4 mkinitrd installed ?)

Comment 2 Ted Kaczmarek 2005-06-28 00:14:21 UTC

You are right on, I did not update mkinitrd. After repeating kernel install with
FC4 version of mkinitrd boots like a champ. Should the newer kernel have a
requires version for the newer mkinitrd?

Comment 3 Rahul Sundaram 2005-06-29 01:44:36 UTC

More information from the above user. The requirements seem to be incorrect in
the specification


rpm -qR kernel-smp
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
fileutils
module-init-tools
initscripts >= 5.83
mkinitrd >= 4.1.15
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1

#rpm -q mkinitrd (FC4)

mkinitrd-4.2.15-1

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2005-06-29 02:03:15 UTC

it's a little too late to fix in the spec now though seeing as FC4 has already
shipped.