I did a belated update of my Fedora 14 box last night, which included a
new kernel (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE, previous was
2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE). However, upon trying to boot, it slept for a
little bit, then said something like:
Fatal: no boot partition found, sleeping forever
(paraphrasing, I neglected to write the exact message).
I can boot fine if I select the older kernel.
title Fedora (2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/md0
apm=power-off rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x318 quiet rhgb LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
KEYTABLE=uk
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686.PAE.img
title Fedora (2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/md0
apm=power-off rdblacklist=nouveau vga=0x318 quiet rhgb LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
KEYTABLE=en-gb
initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.i686.PAE.img
The complication is that I'm using partition-mirrored RAID (2x drives,
identically partitioned, then /dev/mdX mirror-RAID devices applied to those
partitions, so /dev/sda0 & /dev/sdb0 -> /dev/md0 (my root/boot partition).
It kind of feels like the initramfs has been mis-created without RAID
support, but I'm not sure how to check.
I think there's been something iffy with my initramfs creation for a
while, as I always get errors about not being able to find the listed
KEYTABLE and SYSFONT (when present) files, although they're on my HD,
nomatter what values I give.
In fact, I get SYSFONT errors even with the above (nothing specified).
As it happend, those two errors (in quiet mode) are all I get when trying to
boot the new kernel, before a ~10s. sleep and then the fatal error.
Non-quiet mode didn't show me anything in particular; I'll try it again
later with the kernel's 'slow-boot-output' enabled (boot_delay=n).
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[neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
ls: .signature: No such file or directory
[neil@fnx ~]# exit
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