On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:49:19 -0400, Tod wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade one of my servers from FC6-FC7 on the way to > FC8. I followed all the recommendations including the disk LABELs, etc > and everything seemed to work. But once I rebooted I got a kernel panic > because my /boot directory can't be found. > > I have two IDE drives both LVM managed except for a small boot partition > on the first drive. I can boot back to FC6 just fine, but get the > kernel panic when I try the FC7 kernel. My grub.conf looks like this: > > > # 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/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Fedora (2.6.23.15-80.fc7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/boot > initrd /initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.img root=LABEL=/boot clearly is wrong. The kernel root= parameter specifies the system's root partition, but LABEL=/boot points to your /boot partition instead, /dev/sda1 = (hd0,0). > title Fedora Core (2.6.22.14-72.fc6) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.14-72.fc6 ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 hdc=ide_scsi > initrd /initrd-2.6.22.14-72.fc6.img > > > After the first time I booted I changed the FC7 kernel line, it > originally looked the same as the FC6 line. That didn't help. That's strange. > My fstab > looks like this: > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 If it were my system, I would examine the f7 initrd image and optionally rebuild it.
