FC3 kernel panic

[Edwin Dicker]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 19:08 -0500, calin wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I just upgraded my system and after installing FC3, when booting I get
> the following message
> 
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel
> audit(1101046871.4294965592:0): inititalized
> Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
> mkrootdev: label / not found
> mount: error 2 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> switchroot:  mount failed:  22
>   umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have two SATA drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
> 
> sda is 40GB and has 3 partitions on it:
> 
> /dev/sda1 - /boot 100M ext3
> /dev/sda2 - swap 1500M
> /dev/sda3 - / the rest of it which is also ext3
> 
> 
> Trying FC2 works without any problem.
> 

You might want to check your /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
Check if your entry where your FC3 kernel is listed has the same options
as your FC2 kernel entry. to be more specific: look if the
"root=LABEL=/" option is correct.

HTH
Edwin