From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I have installed Fedora core 3 on new Dell Optiplex GX620. This computer comes with the SATA hard drive. When i have install the old kernal that came with install cd (version 2.6.9...) worked and the system boot fine after instll. When i updated the system to new kernal 2.6.11-1.35. the system will not boot and get the following error: Redading all physical volumes. this may take a while No volume group found No volume group found Mount: error 6 mounting ext3 Mount: error 2 mounting none Switch root: mount failed:22 Unmount /inited/dev failed :2 Kernal panic - not Syncing : attempted to kill init: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernal 2.6.11-1.35_fc3 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Tryed with old kernal it worked 2.Tryed with new kernal it failed to boot every time 3. Additional info:
it sounds like the initrd is broken. Please make sure your mkinitrd package is up to date, and then run mkinitd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.35_fc3.img 2.6.11-1.35_fc3
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
If this still doesn't work btw, please show the contents of your /etc/modprobe.conf