On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Stefan Proels wrote:
after installing the latest kernel update for the ptrace security issue on a SuSE 8.0 system, the new kernels panics while booting with the message "VFS: unable to mount root fs".
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SuSE 8.0, SuSE SMP Kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP for 2 P-III CPUs, 1 GB RAM, 2 SCSI drives with Adaptec SCSI controller.
Root-Filesystem is ext3 INITRD_MODULES="aic7xxx usbcore jbd ext3" Bootloader lilo
mk_initrd und lilo after installation of the new kernel ran without any error messages.
No RAID of any sort? The two servers I have running software-RAID on crashed when I rebooted after the upgrade. Evidently the SuSE 8.0 install program "forgot" to put lvm-mod in INITRD_MODULES and since they booted with the generated initrd I never noticed. _Then_ I had to run 'depmod -a' and things started working. You say mk_initrd gives no error messages.. What messages does it give? Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 teknisk@mi.uib.no Email: bjornts@mi.uib.no http://www.mi.uib.no/