From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1 Description of problem: After a successful installation of FC3, if you execute a reboot command manually, kernel panics. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC3 RC5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot through the Installation CD1 2. Select some kind of build (to demonstrate this problem, "minimal system" installation type is good enough) 3. Wait for the installation to complete, and when it advises that the installation is over and asks you press "Reboot" button, do not press that button. Instead change to virtual console 2 (ctrl+alt+f2) 4. Type in "reboot" (to initiate a manual reboot for example. In my case it is a old habit of rebooting a machine manually :) Actual Results: Kernel panics Expected Results: Kernel may not panic, of course :) Additional info: The panic message is: The system is going down NOW!! Sending SIGTERM to all processes. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8, 3) I suspect that the installer unmounted root fs when it presented the reboot option in the GUI. Perhaps it should do that after the user asks to reboot. [Alternatively, before preseting the reboot option in the GUI, the installer may terminate all the console sessions (including the shell at the virtual terminal 2). It that is a no-no then Installer may not allow the user to access any other virtual terminals at that time or have no reboot command at all or advise it is not allowed etc.] Thank you. Hari
Fixed in CVS. Calling /sbin/reboot instead of just reboot will workaround it.