kernel panic

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Thu Sep 6 16:09:12 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> As I pointed out 18 hours ago, if it was the case the root=(LABEL=/ ?)
>> part of the kernel commandline in /boot/grub/grub.conf no longer matched
>> the partitions on the drive for some reason, it could have directly
> 
>> explained it.
> 
> 
> Because it is cached. It is necessary to delete
> 
> */etc/blkid/blkid.tab
> 
> *before rebooting the first time.
> 
> Mine looks like this:
> 
> <device DEVNO="0x0802" TIME="1189078643" LABEL="/"
> UUID="9d36358b-a777-4df2-8ac8-782a972145df" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
> TYPE="ext3">/dev/sda2</device>
> 
> If the new "/" in my case is no longer /dev/sda2 it will not work
> (unless I delete the cache).

Well it's interesting to hear about that file, which is new to me.  But
unless you're proposing that it does mount the correct / filesystem,
reads this file on /etc from that filesystem, and only then errors out,
I don't see how it can explain the symptoms as I understood them.

-Andy




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