Re: kernel panic (517)

[Christian Thibodeau]

On Thu, 2004-12-08 at 12:58 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:45:18AM -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> > Just downloaded kernel 2.6.7-1.517 and upon reboot got messages:
> >
> > Mount error 6 mounting ext3
> > switchroot failed z2
> > kernel panic attempt to kill init!
>
> This is a mkinitrd problem.  Either downgrade to mkinitrd-4.0.3-1
> or wait until mkinitrd-4.0.5-1 will show up.  In any case you will
> have to rebuild your initrd images which got affected.

From rom the comments in Bugzilla (#129773):

mkinitrd 4.0.5 at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/mkinitrd/ should fix
this (you'll need to rebuild your initrd)

rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-4.0.5-1.i386.rpm
mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.7-1.517.img 2.6.7-1.517
reboot

That solved the problem for me.