Bug 164604

Summary:	Bad: New kernel problem on Dell sc1420, Cannot mount root, kernel panic.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrick Dung <patdung100+redhat>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	pfrields, wtogami
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Description Patrick Dung 2005-07-29 06:34:49 UTC

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Description of problem:
Bad: After a fresh install of FC3, I do a yum update, reboot.
The new kernel cannot mount root and then kernel panic.
Good: Then I boot old kernel (FC3 original) kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm and has no problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.i686.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum update
2. reboot
3. New kernel is boot automatically
4. Cannot mount root, kernel panic
  

Actual Results:  Cannot mount root, kernel panic

Expected Results:  Mount root, normal system startup.

Additional info:

Dell SC1420 with Dual Xeon, 1G ECC RAM
XD bit on
Adaptec serial ATA raid card (DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch) as SCSI.

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-08-03 22:50:39 UTC

sounds like a dupe of bug 163407. Please update your mkinitrd package, then rpm
-e kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 and then install that kernel again.
This should create a working initrd.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163407 ***