From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 (CK-IBM) Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: None of the 2.6.14 kernel updates will boot on my system. FC4 is installed on an sata_via system with software RAID. On booting, immediately after init there are errors: mount: error 22 mounting ext3 ... ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1 error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2 ... switchroot: mount failed: 22 Kernel panic... ... System is an Athlon64 running i386 kernel on Gigabyte K8VNXP motherboard. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1653 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to boot from grub with a 2.6.14-1.xxx_FC4 kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: Kernel panic Expected Results: System boots normally Additional info: I've read various reports about this being related to either module changes upstream, or mkinitrd not executing properly. I've tried removing /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and /etc/modprobe.conf, rebuilding them via kudzu whilst running kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 (the last one to boot successfully), re-running mkinitrd and comparing the contents with the initrd installed with the kernel... no luck, kernel panic every time. /etc/modprobe.conf: alias eth0 via-rhine alias eth1 off alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=127 alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-card-0 index=0 install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/als actl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/mod probe -r --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-card-1 index=1 install snd-usb-audio /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-usb-audio && /usr/sbin /alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : remove snd-usb-audio { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/m odprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-usb-audio alias char-major-81 bttv alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 alias net-pf-10 off options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1 alias char-major-195* nvidia alias ipv6 off
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per last comment.