Bug 172862

Summary:	Kernel Panic during bootup
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Firdos Ali <dawuad>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Tom Coughlan <coughlan>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	jbaron
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Description Firdos Ali 2005-11-10 17:33:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
On boot up we get the following error.  This happened after the upgrade from Redhat ES version 3 to version 4

Redhat nash version 4.2.1.6 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Mounting sysfs
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Loading scsi_mod.ko module
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading sd_mod.do module
Loading jbd.do module
Loading ext3.do module
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed:2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
On Boot up

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Upon boot-up
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Actual Results:  Get a kernel panic and system crashes

Expected Results:  Should have booted successfully

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-12-08 06:01:32 UTC

what type of disk controller do you have ?

Comment 3 Luming Yu 2007-08-09 05:48:00 UTC

I'm __not__ aware of any boot time issue with rhel 4.5 & 5 recently.
There is __no__ response since 2005-12-08, closing it ...