On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 19:58 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 ejlmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I've been running fedora rawhide for about a year. > > For the past 2 weeks or so, when the kernel updates and then installs automatically through 'yum update', the new kernel consistently fails to boot (kernel panic). > > My root partition is hda1. After the yum update, when I review grub.conf, I find, for example, > > 'kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1315_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda1 > > /dev/hdb2' > > rather than '....root=/dev/hda1'. Even if I delete the extra '/dev/hdb2', I still get kernel panic on reboot. > > The last kernel to successfully install and boot for me was 2.6.11-1.1240_FC4. > > I think this may be a mkinitrd problem, which is fixed by > mkinitrd-4.2.15-1 (doesn't look to be available externally yet, but > should be soon, I imagine). http://people.redhat.com/pjones/mkinitrd/ Should also be in this morning's rawhide, I think, but I haven't checked yet. -- Peter