Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 135889
Kernel panic when booting after upgrading from kernel-2.6.8-1.541
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:10:45 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: during boot of new kernel 2.6.8-1.610 or 2.6.8-1.624 kernel panic occurs. Messages handwritten of screen follows (ignore spellingerrors): creating /dev starting udev loading dm-mod.ko module device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl(2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com Loading jbd.ko module Loading ext3.ko module Loading dm-mirror.ko module Loading dm-zero.ko module Loading dm-snapshot.ko module Making device-mapper control node Scanning logical volumes Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volumegroup "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 Activating logical volumes 2 logical volume(s) in volume group "VolGroup00" now active Making device nodes Creating root device 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: Attempting to kill init. Same problem on both 2.6.8-1.610 and 2.6.8-1.624. Kernel 2.6.8-1.541 (default on FC3-T3) works fine. I have tried running mkinitrd with both 610 and 624, and although it produces a different (according to diff) initrd-file than the one created on install it will not boot. Installation of kernels through yum and up2date. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.8-1.610, kernel 2.6.8-1.624 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system with kernel 2.6.8-1.610 or 2.6.8-1.624 Actual Results: Kernel Panic Expected Results: Complete boot Additional info: Grub.conf entry (kernel 2.6.8-1.610 is removed): default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2199.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl.img title Fedora Core 3 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.541 initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.541.img title Fedora Core 3 (Kernel 2.6.8-1.624) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.624 initrd /initrd-2.6.8-1.624.img Application versions that might be of interest: mkinitrd-4.1.15-1 gawk-3.1.3-9 kernel-2.6.8-1.541 kernel-2.6.8-1.624
You need a root=LABEL=/1 (or similar) on the 'kernel' lines.
Ouch, silly me. Now it works (although hal-0.4.0-2 seems to bug out on the new kernel, but that is another bug) so please close this.