kernel panic

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 10/20/2010 11:06 AM, cornel panceac wrote:
> 2010/10/20 cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com <mailto:cpanceac at gmail.com>>
>
>     how can i install a newer kernel (or whatever is faulting here) if the
>     system no longer boots?
>     i get this error everytime i attempt boot:
>
>     ...
>     dracut: Switching root
>     init[1]: segfault at 464dfc ..... in ld-2.12.90.so
>     <http://ld-2.12.90.so>[444000+20000]
>     .....
>
>     i'm not reaching even runlevel 1.
>
> ok, found it, it's been said before on this list:
>
> // in rescue mode:
> mount -o bind /mnt/sysimage/usr/share/ /usr/share/
> yum –installroot=/mnt/sysimage update
>
> let's see if updating will fix things ....
>

Just out of curiosity if you set /mnt/sysimage as installroot for yum what 
is the mount necessary for?

Regards,
   Dennis