Re: mkroot: label / not found

[tlc]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:25 -0500, fneira(a)defensoria.gob.pe wrote:
>  Hello everybody,
>  
>  This morning I was working normally on my HP PIV PC with FC4. FC has been
>  installed and working without trouble for a couple of months. Hardware has
>  not been modified. I was running KDE and suddenly everything stopped
>  working.
>  
>  Then I rebooted the PC and got the following messages:
>  
>  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!
>  
>  I am im big trouble trying to recover my own workstation and a lot of
>  locally archived email messages :-(
>  
>  I had been googling with any luck. Any suggestions will be highly
>  appreciated. Pardon my English since it is not my native language.
>   
Are you sure you did not upgrade the kernel someplace along the way and
this was the first reboot? Try the 2.6.12-1.1447 or older kernel. My
boxes here that use SATA all have the same problem. Supposedly upgrading
to the the 2.6.13-166* kernel ( still in testing ) fixes it.

>  Regards,
>  
>  --
>  Francisco Neira Basso
>  Administrador de Red
>  Defensoria del Pueblo
>  Lima, Peru -05:00GMT
>