Kernel panic after update

[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 19:58 -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 ejlmd at optonline.net wrote:
> 
> > I've been running fedora rawhide for about a year.
> > For the past 2 weeks or so, when the kernel updates and then installs automatically through 'yum update', the new kernel consistently fails to boot (kernel panic).  
> > My root partition is hda1.  After the yum update, when I review grub.conf, I find, for example, 
> > 'kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1315_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda1
> > /dev/hdb2' 
> > rather than '....root=/dev/hda1'.  Even if I delete the extra '/dev/hdb2', I still get kernel panic on reboot.
> > The last kernel to successfully install and boot for me was 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4.
> 
> I think this may be a mkinitrd problem, which is fixed by 
> mkinitrd-4.2.15-1  (doesn't look to be available externally yet, but 
> should be soon, I imagine).

http://people.redhat.com/pjones/mkinitrd/

Should also be in this morning's rawhide, I think, but I haven't checked
yet.

-- 
        Peter