From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux; X11; , en_US, en) Description of problem: A number of problems is preventing me to boot this version (after figuring out the mkinitrd problem!): 1. I get a kernel panic when mounting the following device: /dev/vg01/lv_data /data ext3 defaults 1 2 from fstab. The device file is there. I am not sure what this is for since it came from Dell as part of the preinstalled linux. It seems to be empty. 2. The /boot/vmlinux-version points to the wrong location /usr/lib/debig/lib/modules/vmlinux-version... which does not exist! Also, /lib/modules/kernel-version/vmlinux* does not exits either! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.0-1.2smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install kernel-2.6.0-1.2 2. boot 3. Actual Results: kernel panic Expected Results: system start Additional info:
the vmlinuX file is only useful if you want to run gdb on the kernel and is HUGE so we stuck it in the debuginfo rpm only (99.9999% of the people don't need it and it'd be a waste of space and bandwidth for them)
Ok...I have /boot and / as different partitions. The boot comes all the way to before calling init and gives an error saying unable to mount root partition, and than it panics because it cannot find init. The 2.4 kernel works fine with this setting. Here is my grub.conf file: ------------------------------------------------ splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.0-1.21smp) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.21smp ro root=/dev/sda5 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.6.0-1.21smp.img title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp ro root=/dev/sda5 hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2129.nptlsmp.img
Created attachment 96749 [details] Trace dump from kernel panic
I get the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=96749&action=view">attached</a> kernel panic booting 2.6.0-1.21 (i686) on my Vaio Z1MP (Pentium-M 1.3 GHz, 768MB RAM, 40GB HDD, running Fedora Core 1 with updated mkinitrd and selinux packages). I recall running 2.6.0 test kernels just fine a few months ago, and the exact same panic is reproducible when booting with pci=noacpi and acpi=off Downloading -1.23 now to see if this is fixed.
It seems Dave enabled PNPBIOS by mistake.... try booting with pnpbios=off on the commandline (and you need to remove the ide-scsi part as well for 2.6...)
PNPBIOS was the culprit, thanks. I *knew* I was missing something after trying acpi= and pci=, but could not remember what. Same problem with -1.23 too - and as for ide-scsi, I thought it's not even needed with FC1 kernels?