Dave Atkinson wrote:
Similar to the thread entitled "Kernel panic after yum update" I get the
following messages when trying to boot the kernel from the
kernel-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp.i686.rpm package:
...
Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
Mounted /proc filesystem
Creating /dev
Starting udev
Loading scsi_mod.ko module
SCSI subsystem initialised
Loading sd_mod.ko module
Loading aic7xxx.ko module
Loading jdb.ko module
Loading ext3.ko module
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does that tickle your memory? :-)
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 2 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
Switching to new root
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init!
I tried recreating the initial ramdisk with mkinitrd, but the problem
persisted. I've rebuilt the package from the source SRPM, same problem.
I'm currently booted on the uni-processor 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel, no
problem (except it's so much slower due to the lack of smp... ;-).
The system is trying to find a partition labeled "/" for root and it
can't find one. Try booting in rescue mode and modifying your
/etc/fstab to point at the device name ("/dev/hdax") instead of the
label or make sure you run e2label on the partition to give it a "/"
label:
# e2label /dev/hdax /
You may be able to bypass this error by giving a "root=/dev/hdax" option
to the boot command line. That should get you up so you can fix it
properly (using the "root=" option should prevent you from having to
boot in rescue mode).
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