Kernel or Grub

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 00:20 -0400, Donald Casey wrote:
> OK, I have found a very reproducible issue on my system. Don't know for sure
> if it is a Grub issue or Kernel. I believe that it is Grub because I have
> four Kernels on my system and all produce the same response now.
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> audit(1114645171.238:0):initialized
> Red Hat nash version 4.2.8 starting
> ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 417)
> ata2: disabling port
> ERROR: /sbin/udevstart exited abnormally! (pid 481)
>   Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
>   No volume groups found
>   Unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
> ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 483)
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!: 2
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> unmounting old /proc
> unmounting old /sys
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> What is the opinion of this forum?

  That's no evidence at all that the problem is grub.  You also failed
to mention which kernels you are seeing this with.
  I saw that show up with several recent kernels.  Oddly, it was also
inconsistent.  Sometimes the same kernel that failed as above would then
successfully boot on the next try.  Anyhow, I think I did see some
discussion about that.  Check the archives.  The latest kernel (1268)
seems to have solved the problem for me.

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