[CentOS] Problem booting 2.6.30-rc5 kernel

Jeff Layton
Thu, 14 May 2009 15:14:57 -0000

Good morning!

I know I'm on the bleeding edge, but I'm having trouble getting
the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel to boot on my CentOS 5.3 box. It's a
dual-socket Nehalem box with the Tylersburg chipset (Supermicro
board). I installed CentOS 5.3 on it with no problems - boots and
runs fine. But I wanted to take a look at the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel
and try out some new stuff.

After a few go around's with 2.6.30-rc5 the closest I can get it
to boot is that I receive the following typing from my notes, so
please excuse my typos):

Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting
insmod : error inserting '/lib/dm-region-hash.ko' : -1 File exists
   Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
   Volume gruop "VolGroup00" not found
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
setuproot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!


I think this all boils down to the missing module. But I can't seem
to find it in the 2.6.30-rc5 kernel.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff