Kernel panic after update

[James Morris]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 ejlmd at optonline.net wrote:

> I've been running fedora rawhide for about a year.
> For the past 2 weeks or so, when the kernel updates and then installs automatically through 'yum update', the new kernel consistently fails to boot (kernel panic).  
> My root partition is hda1.  After the yum update, when I review grub.conf, I find, for example, 
> 'kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1315_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda1
> /dev/hdb2' 
> rather than '....root=/dev/hda1'.  Even if I delete the extra '/dev/hdb2', I still get kernel panic on reboot.
> The last kernel to successfully install and boot for me was 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4.

I think this may be a mkinitrd problem, which is fixed by 
mkinitrd-4.2.15-1  (doesn't look to be available externally yet, but 
should be soon, I imagine).


- James
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James Morris
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