Kernel panic after updating to 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 kernel

[Jim Cornette]

Antti J. Huhtala wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> You might try uninstalling the kernel that fails to boot and then 
>> re-installing it. On rare occasions I have had kernels install poorly 
>> but would install correctly on the second install. I believe my problem 
>> was due to mkinitrd being updated after the kernel in the past. When I 
>> erased the failed kernel and then installed it again, everything was n 
>> place for the kernel to install correctly.
>>
> Thank you, Jim
> 
> I tried that but unfortunately it didn't help. I only removed the kernel
> proper (using pirut), not kernel-devel nor kernel-headers packages
> (assuming they have little relevance to the problem at hand), and dl'd
> the 2.6.22.1-27 kernel again. When installed and rebooted, the problems
> persist just like before. 
> Maybe it's my hardware but it has worked with every kernel since FC4 as
> I told earlier. Guess I'll stick to 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 kernel for now.

I think the main packages for kernel are nash, mkinitrd and the grub 
related packages. I have no idea if the kernel-headers could cause the 
problem. The devel package would not matter for a booting kernel.

There i another posting on the list where a kernel panic was 
encountered. I believe he posted messages containing uncompressing the 
initrd and calls to nash which is a kernel environment shell if I 
understand correctly.

Oh well, it was worth a try.

Jim