On 02/24/2012 10:58 AM, Brian Johnson wrote:
> Hello Fedora Users list!
>
> I sent this recently to our local LUG list, but no one was able to help. I 
> looked to see if this has been talked about and as far
> as I know, it hasn't (outside of something similar with Fedora 15, but it 
> seemed the solution there was incomplete).
>
> I have 3 kernels installed on my Fedora 16 laptop -- 
> kernel-3.2.2-1.fc16.i686, kernel-3.2.5-3.fc16.i686
> and kernel-3.2.6-3.fc16.i686. When I try to boot 3.2.5-3 or 3.2.6-3, I get a 
> kernel panic message with the message "initramfs
> unpacking failed uncompression error" followed by "not syncing, no init 
> found". Both of these were installed via normal yum
> updating; nothing out of the ordinary for them.
>
> In the beginning, booting into the oldest one, 3.2.2-1 has no problems, 
> fortunately. Haven't seen anything helpful mentioned on
> the Interwebz about such an error, was wondering if anyone had seen something 
> similar. Just to be sure, I removed the 2 newer
> kernels and then did a "yum install kernel" to see if something was corrupted 
> the first time, but I'm still getting the same results. 
>
> The last time I reboot, *all* of the kernels would give the error message. I 
> was able to first boot into single-user and then,
> when exiting, it boot properly. I just installed the latest kernel update and 
> (3.2.7.x) and getting the same thing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>
>
Brian,

What does your grub or grub2 config file look like?

Kevin
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