LinuxQuestions.org - Upgrade FC3 to 2.6.14 results in kernel panic

Hi

I'm trying to update the kernel on my FC3 install from 2.6.12-1.1372 to 2.6.14.2

I'm using the vanilla 2.6.14.2 from kernel.org and did the following steps in making it...

Code:

make mrproper

make oldconfig (set everything that I could to module)

make all

make modules_install

make install

This created my initrd file and updated the grub conf file and all was looking good...

My system uses lvm and has the following in its grub.conf file...

Code:

title Fedora Core (2.6.14.2)

root (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14.2 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

initrd /initrd-2.6.14.2.img

It is exactly the same (apart from file names) as the entry for the kernel that works.

I then rebooted and got a kernel panic with the following output...

Code:

Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.14.2)'



root(hd0,0)

  FileSystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14.2 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x19d9ac]

initrd /initrd-2.6.14.2.img

    [Linux-initrd @ 0x1def5000, 0x10d3a0 bytes]



Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.0

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.1



pnp: Unable to assign resources to device 00:08

RedHat nash version 4.1.18.1 starting

    Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...

    No volume groups found

    No volume groups found

    No volume groups found



mount: error 6 mounting ext3

mount: error 2 mounting none

switchroot: mount failed: 22

umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

Kernel panic - not syncing. Attempting to kill init!

So vgscan cannot find my LVM partitions, the 2 "PCI:" lines are not normally there but lspci gives...

Code:

...

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02)

...

So I doubt the PCI messages have anything to do with it being unable to find the lvm partitions.

I've unpacked the initrd's and they have exactly the same files in their with the only differences between the files being for the modules (which is not at all surprising). So the initrd (seems to) contain the drivers for my scsi controller.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?
Any ideas where to look next?
Any way of getting more output before the Kernel panic.

Thanks for your help in advance

Mrs K