[CentOS] kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL error while booting - CentOS 4.4

Thu Feb 8 06:58:24 UTC 2007
Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75 at gmail.com>

I think as a work around you can change the grub.conf to use the
/dev/xxx instead of the disk label.


i did changes it to as follows

kernel /vmlinuz-whatever root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
....change it to.....
kernel /vmlinuz-whatever root=/dev/sda2 rhgb quiet



but still the same thibg appears.


On 2/8/07, Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote:
>
> Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I am ruuning Senmail with MailScanner on CentOS 4.4. It has updated to
> > kernel 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL from its past kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.
> >
> > Now the Server can not boot up and gives the below error.
> >
> >   mkrootdev: label / not found
> >   Mounting root filesystem
> >   mount: error 2 mouting ext3
> >   switchroot: mount failed: 22
> >   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> >
> > But I can boot up from its last kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL. I have booted it
> > up from that kernel.
>
> The new kernel seems to have problems picking up the filesystem label.
>
> >
> > But I wnat to rectify that new kernel error in order to boot from that
> > kernel.
> >
> > Help needed.
>
> I think as a work around you can change the grub.conf to use the
> /dev/xxx instead of the disk label.
>
> >
> > --
> > Thank you
> > Indunil Jayasooriya
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thank you
> > Indunil Jayasooriya
> >
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Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya
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