Kernel panic in 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 at i686

[Johannes Findeisen]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 10:14 +0300, Dan Fruehauf wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 02:14 +0200, Johannes Findeisen wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > just got this kernel panic right after updating Fedora core 3 to
> > 2.6.11-1.35_FC3. I am running Fedora Core 3 for x86 on an AMD64 machine
> > - if this helps?. Since i have no serial console i could not copy and
> > paste the panic message, so i have made a photo which you can see at:
> > 
> > http://hanez.org/images/content/kernelpanic.jpg
> > 
> > The following package is what i am talking about: 
> > 
> > kernel-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.i686.rpm
> > 
> > Please tell me how i could debug such things better in the future. I
> > really want to understand the way developers are handling this.
> > 
> Johannes,
> This looks like your kernel is unable to mount your root filesystem.
> I'd suggest trying to re-run mkinitrd and create one suitable for your
> system.
> Before the panic you can see that initrd has troubles switching to your
> new root that perhaps wasn't mounted successfully.
> 
> I got something similar with a Xen0 kernel under VMWare while running
> with a SCSI disk. The driver wasn't loaded well and a similar panic
> followed.

Hello Dan,

sorry for replying late. I didn't had enough time the last days. I have
created a new initial ramdisc and got the same error as above.

My main confusion is: How will developers debug this issue? 

I could set up a serial console for logging debug output but is this the
right way?

I definitely not have destroyed my system because of not enough
knowledge. I have simply updated my Kernel using the graphical update
tool. Okay, i have installed many packages from other repositories but
not kernel related and i hope no system related packages... ;-)

Could someone give me a hint how i could find out what the problem is or
should i post a bugreport?

Sorry, i never have posted kernel related bugs in the last years. I am
really interested how things are handled the right way, before posting
things to bugzilla that aren't bugs, or where i can get more information
about the problem before posting?

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Johannes Findeisen