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

Thu Feb 8 06:41:38 UTC 2007
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

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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