From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: RHEL 4 "not syncing" kernel panic could not load /etc/init Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Using SATA drive in compatibility mode on a new Dell GX620 2. just reboot after running up2date 3. Dell offers no help at all Actual Results: RHEL 4 "not syncing" kernel panic could not load /etc/init Expected Results: system boots normally Additional info: If I run fsck scan, multitude of errors and fixing them does not resolve.