From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: After upgrading to 2.4.22-1.2049.nptl and 2051 from rawhide, I get a kernel panic while mounting the root ext3 filesystem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2051.nptl How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2.4.22-1.2051.nptl kernel Actual Results: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=4924, limit=4096 attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=4924, limit=4096 attempt to access beyond end of device 01:00: rw=0, want=4928, limit=4096 VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs or 00:00 If I change the boot option to "root=/dev/hda6" I can get the kernel to boot, but errors are still present (dmesg output included). Expected Results: Kernel mounts the root filesystem without errors and boots normally Additional info: This has worked up until 2.4.22-1.2044.nptl and no boot options have been changed. There is also no problems with 2.6.0-0.test5.1.38
Created attachment 94648 [details] dmesg output with "root=/dev/hda6"
Did you remake your initrd correctly?
Well I did now, and everything works, thanks. Still beats me why it didn't get created correctly by the postinstall script in the first place. I'm installing with 'rpm -ivh --oldpacakge' (because I also have 2.6 on) and didn't have these problems before until 2.4.22-1.2049.nptl
Ok, I've got rid of 2.6 temporarily and installed today's 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl without '--oldpackage' and initrd got created correctly this time. Let me know if you're interested in testing this further to pinpoint what really happened; otherwise, please feel free to close this bug.
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