On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:43 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote: > Ever since I was upgraded (by smart) to 2.6.14, I have not been able > to boot any of these kernels. vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 works fine so > I've at least had a working system. vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 as well > as vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4 bomb out on boot with these messages: > > > Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4)' > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ quiet > [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x178b66] > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img > [Linux-initrd @ 0x37ec7000, 0x128125 bytes] > > Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel. > Red Hat nash version 4.2.15 starting > mkrootdev: label / not found > mount: error 2 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 - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > is this some sort of udev problem? I've googled this to death and I > cant find any resolution. tried giving different parameters to the > boot line to no effect. > explicitly setting root=/dev/sda1 did not work. it's an SATA > drive...what gets me is that 2.6.13 worked fine, but any 2.6.14 is > borked. so that indicates to me that the label on the disk is fine. > the boot parameters for my 2.6.13 are identical. > > perhaps support for my SATA controller was removed? it seems > doubtful. SiL 3114 SATA Raid PCI card. The difference between the 13 > and 14 boot seems to be at the line right after "Red Hat nash version > 4.2.15 starting". the 13 gets to INIT, and the 14 bombs on mkrootdev. > It also seems less likely that ext3 support was taken out of > 2.6.14 :)...I'm a little nervous about removing udev as it seems > 2.6.13 uses it and I'd like to have a somewhat working system. > > thanks for any help and sorry if I've left any important information > out. > Can you post your complete machine configuration. Motherboard, memory, etc. Gilboa
