Fedora 16 kernel panic

[Brian Johnson]

Hello Fedora Users list!

I sent this recently to our local LUG list, but no one was able to help. I
looked to see if this has been talked about and as far as I know, it hasn't
(outside of something similar with Fedora 15, but it seemed the solution
there was incomplete).

I have 3 kernels installed on my Fedora 16 laptop
-- kernel-3.2.2-1.fc16.i686, kernel-3.2.5-3.fc16.i686
and kernel-3.2.6-3.fc16.i686. When I try to boot 3.2.5-3 or 3.2.6-3, I get
a kernel panic message with the message "initramfs unpacking failed
uncompression error" followed by "not syncing, no init found". Both of
these were installed via normal yum updating; nothing out of the ordinary
for them.

In the beginning, booting into the oldest one, 3.2.2-1 has no problems,
fortunately. Haven't seen anything helpful mentioned on the Interwebz about
such an error, was wondering if anyone had seen something similar. Just to
be sure, I removed the 2 newer kernels and then did a "yum install kernel"
to see if something was corrupted the first time, but I'm still getting the
same results.

The last time I reboot, *all* of the kernels would give the error message.
I was able to first boot into single-user and then, when exiting, it boot
properly. I just installed the latest kernel update and (3.2.7.x) and
getting the same thing.

Thanks!

Brian
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