Bob Goodwin wrote: > > I have a new Live CD install that after partially configuring I yum > updated but which can not boot to the new kernel [3228.fc7]. > > It starts off normally and quits early on with "Kernel Panic - not > syncing: Attempted to kill init!" whatever that means, I love those > error messages. > > There's too much for me to type manually but it begins with "mount: > could not find file system '/dev/root'" which sounds fatal! I think this usually means that the kernel could not find the partition you nominated for root in grub.conf . Are you for example using LABELs, as recommended for Fedora-7 in grub.conf (root=LABEL=...) and in /etc/fstab ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
