Bug 172738 - After upgrading from ES 3 to ES 4, we have a kernel panic
Summary: After upgrading from ES 3 to ES 4, we have a kernel panic
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: grub
Version: 4.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Reported: 2005-11-08 22:10 UTC by Firdos Ali
Modified: 2011-07-27 18:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-07-27 18:02:59 UTC
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Description Firdos Ali 2005-11-08 22:10:12 UTC 
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Description of problem:
We had Redhat Enterprise Version 3 and needed to upgrade so we downloaded the kit from Redhat's server.  We downloaded Version 4 update 2 for EMT64.  During the upgrade I recall an option to save ext3 data and I did so.  After the upgrade was completed and the computer rebooted I got the following errors:

Loading ext3.do module
Creating root device
mkrootdec: label / not found
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switching to new root
umount /initrd/dev/failed 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!

I believe the problem is with my boot loader, but I may be wrong.  How do I fix the boot loader if it is?  Sorry to sound so dumb, but I am a newbie at this.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Starting the system
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Actual Results:  Kernel Panic

Expected Results:  Should have booted successfully

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