Bug 823631 - kernel 3.3.5 doesn't boot
Summary: kernel 3.3.5 doesn't boot
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 754877
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grubby
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-05-21 18:17 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2012-05-21 19:51 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-05-21 19:51:18 UTC
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Description Pierre Ossman 2012-05-21 18:17:15 UTC 
kernel-3.3.5-2.fc16.x86_64 doesn't work on my machine. Trying to boot from it results in:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

The previous stable kernel, kernel-3.3.4-3.fc16.x86_64, boots and runs just fine.
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman 2012-05-21 18:21:53 UTC 
Booting without "quiet" at least allows you to see that it has found the disk, and the partitions on it. The root is an LVM volume though, so I guess it's not setting up LVM properly.

On second thought, shouldn't it be booting into initramfs?
Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2012-05-21 19:00:18 UTC 
And digging further, the initramfs is missing for the latest kernel. It's not on disk, or referenced in grub.cfg.

Reinstalling the kernel package solved the issue. Can't find any errors in the logs when it was improperly installed...
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-05-21 19:30:35 UTC 
That'd be a problem in either grubby or dracut.
Comment 4 Brian Lane 2012-05-21 19:51:18 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 754877 ***
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