Cannot find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good luck!

Joshua C. joshuacov at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 26 01:33:03 UTC 2009


2009/2/25 Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com>:
> 2009/2/24 M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk>:
>> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Joshua C. wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/2/24 Joshua C. <joshuacov at googlemail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> As the subject says I get the following error with F11 Alpha: "Cannot
>>>> find Root filesystem. Bug in intramfs/init detected. Dropping to a
>>>> shell. Good luck!"
>>>
>>> A bug report has already been filed:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458597 on July, 10 but
>>> there is still no fix for this.
>>
>> The problem is that that error message doesn't say much more than "an error
>> occurred". Clearly something went wrong during the boot but that doesn't say
>> what it is. Removing boot line options such as quiet and rhgb might give you
>> a better idea of the cause of the problem.
>>
>>        Michael Young
>>
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>
> I tried removing those parameters and didn't get any useful
> information. There are no kernel-oops. It starts detecting the
> hardware, goes through it, and just before starting udev it stops.
> Pressing any key gives you bash-4 terminal. acpi=off and other kernel
> boot-options didn't show anything either.
>
> It's just somthing with mkinitrd that causes the problem. As I said
> f10 with kernel 2.6.27 works fine but cannot boot with 2.6.29.rc.
> bacause of this error. See the bug report for more info.
>

it turned out that mkinitrd is the cause of the problem. After
upgrading to the latest version i can upgrade to the 2.6.29.rc.




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