Kernel panic any advice 5222

On Wednesday 19 October 2005 01:54, Timothy Murphy stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

It panics because it needs *-dev-console* and the device doesn't exist yet, as FC4 depends onudev,which creates the device nodes on boot.

My suggestion would be to boot up using a Live CD and create the device node yourself. If the Live CD also makes use ofudev,then follow these instructions...:

(1) Boot up from the Live CD. (2) Mount your root parbreastion to a temporary mountpoint, e.g.

mount -t ext3dev-hda1mnt

(provided that *-dev-hda1* is where your root filesystem is, and that it is of typeext3,of course!)

(3) Issue the following commands...:

cdmnt-dev mknod -m 660 console c 5 1 mknod -m 660 null c 1 3 sync cd umountmnt

(4) Reboot your system. You may need to runfsckon the root filesystem. Just follow the instructions on the screen.

Both *-dev-null* and *-dev-console* are needed upon boot, but with audev-onlysystem, they don't exist. The problem with FC is that it already starts fiddling withudevfrom within theinitrdinstead of invokingudevafter the root pivot.

Hope the above helps you... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered Gnu-Linux user #223157)