[CentOS] 2.6.9.42 Kernel Panic

[Karanbir Singh]

Carrigan, Jeremy wrote:
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> Recently I update a server running CentOS 4.3 to kernel 
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> 2.6.9-42.0.2. After the update it had a problem to mount
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> LVM partitions, showing the follow error during boot:
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>   No volume groups found
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>   Activating logical volumes
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>   Unable to find volume group "lvm1" 
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>   ERROR: /bin/lvm exited abnormally! (pid 199)
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>   Creating root device
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>   Mounting root filesystem
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>   mount: error 6 mounting ext3
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>   mount: error 2 mounting none
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>   Switching to new root
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>   switchroot: mount failed: 22
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>   umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
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>   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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> Root partition is a LVM2 on Software RAID.
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> With old kernel (2.6.9-34.0.2) the system boot normally.
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do you have any custom drivers that are missing in the new kernel ? ( 
eg. what drive interface controller are you using ? )

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