After running mkinitrd with a LVM root disk listed in fstab to mount by LABEL=/, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 system fails to boot
Issue
- Ran mkinitrd to have 'lpfc_max_luns' take affect. (Note: mkinitrd had not been run prior to this)
- System Fails to boot with the following error reported on the console:
Loading ext3.ko module Creating root device Mounting root filesystem mount: error 6 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none Switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! <0>Rebooting in 20 seconds..
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8
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Root disk is a LVM logical volume, and fstab entry lists the root volume as LABEL=/.
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