Bug 171161 - kernel panic not mounting /dev/root
Summary: kernel panic not mounting /dev/root
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-10-18 20:26 UTC by Jason
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-10-19 14:26:29 UTC
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Description Jason 2005-10-18 20:26:16 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051008 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.beta2 Firefox/1.4.1

Description of problem:
I get the following kernel panic when I boot kernel 1616.  I do not get this panic using 1615.

mount: error No such device or address mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3
setting up other file systems.
setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: no such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: no such file or directory
switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failted: no such file or directory
kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!
[<c011fca8>] panic+0x45/0x1c4
[<c0120f15>] profile_task_exit+0x35/0x48
[<c0122a7b>] do_exit+0x35e/0x3ad
[<c0156e3e>] do_munmap+0xcc/0x100
[<c0122b1f>] do_group_exit+0x29/0x90
[<c0102edd>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb


I have an adaptec 2930U2 scsi card with 2 hard drives attached.  I have a tyan tiger 100 motherboard with 384MB of RAM.  The kernel starts to boot, loads the selinux contects and then the above happens.  

Jason

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.13-1.1616_FC5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do a yum update
2. reboot
3.
  

Actual Results:  kernel panic

Expected Results:  the system should boot

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2005-10-19 04:43:26 UTC
mkinitrd bug. should be fixed tomorrow.


Comment 2 Jason 2005-10-19 14:26:29 UTC
It is fixed.  Thanks for the quick response.


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