Debugging kernel panic on boot.

[Timothy Murphy]

Simon Andrews wrote:

> Since the release of the 2.6.22-x kernels one of our servers has failed
> to boot.  Something seems to be going wrong in the loading of the
> modules which allow it to mount the root partition and it dies very
> early on in the boot.  Going back to a 2.6.21 kernel makes everything
> work OK again.

Might be worth trying the current 2.6.22 kernel (2.6.22.1-41, IIRC).
There seemed to be something wrong with 2.6.22.1-33 
(lots of people complained), I think maybe with udev .


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