F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

[Harald Hoyer]

On 01/28/2010 10:36 AM, Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Thursday 28 January 2010 09:07:13 Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Tony Molloy<tony.molloy at ul.ie>  wrote:
>>> When I boot I get as far as the cursor flashing on the top left hand
>>> corner of the screen and then the following error.
>>>
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>> File ""/init", line 157 in<module>
>>> if __name__=='__main__': main()
>>> File "/init",line 129, in main
>>> xo_ver=get_xo_version()
>>> File :/init", line 84, in get_xo_version
>>> raise Exception("Not an XO laptop?")
>>> Exception: Not an XO laptop?
>>> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init.
>>> [drm:drm_fb_helper_panic] *ERROR* panic occurred, switching back to text
>>> console
>>>
>>> I've got this on several Dell machines, Latitude C660 D830. Precision
>>> Workstation 670
>>
>> what is the output of:
>>
>> # rpm -qf /usr/share/dracut/modules.d/* | sort -u
>>
>> ?
>>
>
> dracut-002-13.4.git8f397a9b.fc12.noarch
> dracut-modules-olpc-0.3.2-1.fc12.i686

Do you have an olpc XO Laptop? If not, why did you install this package? This is 
most likely the source of the:

 >>> File :/init", line 84, in get_xo_version
 >>> raise Exception("Not an XO laptop?")
 >>> Exception: Not an XO laptop?
 >>> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init.


> dracut-network-002-13.4.git8f397a9b.fc12.noarch
> kexec-tools-2.0.0-28.fc12.i686

Do you need kexec-tools?

>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
>