Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 136746
kernel-2.6.9 switchroot: mount failed: 22
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:11:03 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: kernel-2.6.9 switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 kernel panic-not syncing: attempting to kill init! I followed the instructions at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-notes-fc2.shtml and have gone thru the oldconfig using make xconfig several times have unchecked several items I do not use such as ISDN media dvb I looked thru bugzilla to bug #129667 and 129120, also bugzilla says I do not have access to bug # 102734 so I;m not sure what it says, but 129667 seems somewhat similar but exact. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.donwload from kernel.org install, compile using oldconfig from 2.6.8-1.624smp 2.follow instaructions at http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-notes-fc2.shtml 3.reboot Actual Results: kernel fails to boot Expected Results: to boot up Additional info: I've done several compilations on the gentoo partition and I'm gaining more experience, but not sure if I'm missing something simple here.
Hiya fc3 pretty much requires an initrd due to the use of udev. You should be able to use /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-<yourkernelver> <yourkernelver> and add a suitable entry in your grub.conf. In any case, when using custom kernels other forums (fedora-list@redhat.com, #fedora on freenode perhaps) are more appropriate, as this certainly isn't a bug in the fedora kernel.
thank you. I was not aware of udev and it's requirement of initrd. I'm now running fine after your advice and able to mount my ntfs partitions. thanks again