Aha!

For some reason the initramfs is missing from the Fedora 15 kernel on my 
system. Any idea how to get it back? :)

On May 25 Sam Varshavchik did spake thusly:

> Scott van Looy writes:
>
>> I've upgraded my server, now when I boot it gets as far as this:
>> md: Waiting for all devices to be available before auto detect
>> md: If you don't use raid, use raid-noautodetect
>> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>> md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
>> 
>> Then it freezes and kernel panics
>> 
>> I can boot using the rescue method and see my server and get services
>> running more or less that way.
>> 
>> My partitions are mounted as:
>> 
>> /dev/sda8 on / type ext3
>> (rw,relatime,seclabel,errors=continue,barrier=0,data=ordered)
>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,barrier=1,data=ordered)
>> 
>> Does anyone have any ideas why it would kernel panic? Should my boot be
>> ext3 or something like that?
>
> No, ext4 for /boot should be fine.
>
> What kind of disks are they, ide, sata, scsi.
>
> Boot into rescue mode, mount your partitions, use lsmod to see which kernel 
> modules are running. Then take apart the initramfs, and see what modules the 
> boot script is loading. Something is missing.
>
>

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