Hello to all, on my system i see the same error Mark Horton describes. Like Andreas Jaeger I wondred about the -um because I'm normmally runnig the default kernel. After booting with my knoppix and looking for /boot (on my on the boot partition), I see that vmlinuz was a link to the default kernel (which is correct) and initrd was a link to the initrd-2.6.8-24.10-um (which is not correct). After deleting initrd and making an new link: ln -s initrd-2.6.8-24.10-default initrd I was able to start my system - and look to the mailing list if this happned to anybody before. (Next time i do this first ;-) detlef Mark Horton wrote:
I just upgraded the kernel via Yast on my dual opteron system. (I'm using suse 9.2 pro.) Now it gives me a kernel panic. The error is something like this:
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.10-um/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format Waiting for device /dev/hda2 to appear: ok rootfs: major=3 minor=2 devn=770 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,2)
The boot process halts at this point.
Did yast somehow give me the wrong kernel? It was the only kernel available for download and this was the first kernel upgrade I've done on this system. This system was freshly installed yesterday. Nothing outside of the suse distro is installed on it.
Mark