kernel-1570 to 1582 on x86_64 doesn't boot

[John Ellson]

Justin Conover wrote:
> I haven't had a kernel boot in awhile on my amd64 box. my x86 box's are
> fine.
>
> Here is the kernel panic I get: (or atleast the last part of the screen
> output, i can't go up to look at more)
>
> Keep in mind, /dev/hda is a dvd drive, the 2 harddrives in this box are
> SATA's on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
>
> Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 9
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 573177856: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
> No volume groups found
> Activating logical volumes
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 573177856: Input/output error
> /dev/hda: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
> Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormaly with value 5 ! (pid 432)
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> Switching to new root
> 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
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
>   
This is:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169450


The only workaround I know of is to revert to:

mkinitrd-4.2.21-1

John