Considering it is not a flagged dependency as rpm was not told it is , I
would try it, can't hurt. If it is an initrd image issue, you could
build into the kernel all the drivers needed to boot as a test. This was
actually a common issue for me in early SMP releases on a dual athlon
box. Somewhere in RH9 era it stopped being a problem.
Ted
>
> Mike
>
> >From: "Michael DeCleene" <decleene@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Kernel Panic after FC4 upgrade
> >Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:34:10 -0400
> >
> >Hi, folks,
> >
> >I recently updated from FC3 to FC4 via CD install. Install went fairly
> >smoothly, but I now can't get the system to boot--I get a kernel
panic.
> >Relevant section of boot log follows (apologies for any typos--I can't
> >cut-and-paste this without a working system...)
> >CODE
> >
> >Mounting root filesystem
> >mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> >Switching to new root
> >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
> >unmounting old /proc
> >unmounting old /sys
> >switchroot: mount failed: 22
> >Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> >
> >
> >Having done some poking here and on google, I'm expecting this is a
grub
> >issue with finding my proper root filesystem, since it seems to have
issues
> >when it tries to mount the root device. Which should be trivial to
fix, so
> >I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here. But I've been at this for
> >several hours, and can't for the life of me find the issue...
> >
> >Some configuration info: I'm attempting to boot from a SCSI raid
array.
> >That array has /boot on /dev/sda1, the correct root filesystem on
> >/dev/sda2, and /swap on /dev/sda3. I'm using the smp kernel because I
do
> >have an SMP system. I know the array is OK because I can properly
mount it
> >when booting into rescue mode.
> >
> >I've looked at grub.conf and didn't see any obvious issues, though
I've
> >tried a few suggestions I've found online. I've tried reinstalling
grub on
> >/dev/sda. I've run grub and verified that it has setup hd0. I've
checked
> >the device map, which looks OK. I do note fedora is using hd0 in grub,
not
> >sd0, to represent my array, but since the device map correctly points
to
> >the right place, I don't think that would be an issue (especially
given
> >that the system can in fact find the kernel). Basically, I'm stuck
here,
> >and looking for some thoughts/suggestions:
> >
> >Some possibly useful files follow:
> >/etc/grub.conf looks like:
> >CODE
> >
> ># grub.conf generated by anaconda
> >#
> >#Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
> >#NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> ># all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/,
eg.
> ># root (hd0,0)
> ># kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
> ># initrd-version.img
> >#boot=/dev/sda
> >default=1
> >timeout=10
> >splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp)
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp ro root=/dev/sda2
> > initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp.img
> >title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/sda2
> > initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> >
> >
> >/boot/grub/device-map looks like:
> >CODE
> >
> >#this device map was generated by anaconda
> >(fd0) /dev/fd0
> >(hd0) /dev/sda
> >
> >
> >/etc/fstab looks like:
> >CODE
> >
> >/dev/sda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> >/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> >none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> >none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >none /dev/shm tmpfs defauls 0 0
> >/dev/sda3 /swap swap defauls 0 0
> ><more in this file about my IDE hard drives and floppy>
> >
> >
> >Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!!!
> >
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