kernel panic on boot with fedora 15

[Harald Hoyer]

Am 26.05.2011 09:15, schrieb Scott van Looy:
> Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly:
>
>> Am 26.05.2011 08:55, schrieb Scott van Looy:
>>> Today Harald Hoyer did spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> Am 26.05.2011 08:26, schrieb Scott van Looy:
>>>>> Aha!
>>>>>
>>>>> For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my
>>>>> system. Any idea how to get it back? :)
>>>>
>>>> # dracut /boot/initramfs-<kernel version>.img<kernel version>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for this so far. Running the command
>>> dracut /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64.img 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64
>>> dracut just prints out its help
>>>
>>> This isn't currently the running kernel - is there something else I need
>>> to do?
>>>
>>
>> huh?
>>
>> can you send me the output (dracut.log) of:
>>
>> # dracut --debug \
>>    /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64.img 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64 \
>>    2>  dracut.log
>
> That just gives me the same thing but with an empty logfile. It's like I'm
> not giving it enough parameters or something. What does it depend on on my
> filesystem? I may conceivably have missing files or something?
>
> Also, I'm in rescue mode at the moment, if I force removed the kernel
> using rpm and reinstalled it, should it do it for me?
>

ok, what does:

# sh -x /usr/bin/dracut /boot/initramfs-2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64.img 
2.6.38.6-27.fc15.x86_64

output?