Re: FC4 2.6.14 boot problems

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

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