On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Peter Blajev <pblajev at ucsd.edu> wrote: > After that it's trying to mount root and it fails with kernel panic. > > This system is using disk partitions. It's not using LVM. > > I can boot in rescue mode and "chmod /mnt/sysimage". All partitons are > there and mountable. No fsck errors. I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and > it looks fine to me. The time stamp was from last month when I did the > first update. Also there are no new files in /boot since the update from > last month. > > Why is it looking for logical volumes? Any idea? Not certain, but maybe relabeling the volumes might help? It shouldn't make a difference if you're not using LVMs, but recently I had a boot failure on a RedHat system that was resolved by using e2label on all the disk partitions.