On 08/27/2012 01:53 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
On 27.08.2012, sean darcy wrote:
Finally got it to boot. Used /dev/sda2 instead of UUID. BTW, using
root=LABEL gives same devnode error.
Nice to hear!
I'll try to force-install kernel.rpm. But which kernel? Does it matter? The
most recent F17 kernel on koji is 3.5.2-3, which is that same kernel now
installed!
Now that it works, I would strongly suggest that you don't overwrite
your actually working configuration and kernel. There's clearly
something wrong, because booting via uuid has been working all the
time.
You could make a copy og grub.cfg and your initramfs and store it in a
safe place, add the correct uuid in grub.cfg again and recreate the
initramfs with "dracut -f" and try to reboot. If it fails, you can
copy back your working config and initramfs.
I have never used any Fedora kernels any longer than for installation
and have no clue if you can install the same versions in
parallel. Most probably you'll have to rename one of them and
recompile it. Otherwise, you could just compile your own kernel
(e.g. actual stable from kernel.org), it will live peacefully together
with your installed Fedora kernel.
In case you are not familiar with compiling your own kernel, you could
do it this way:
1. download actual stable from kernel.org and unpack it into /usr/src.
2. Take the .config of your installed Fedora kernel (from /boot) and
copy it into your sourcetree as ".config".
3. "make oldconfig"
4. "make -jx" (where the x is the number of your available CPU-cores/threads)
5. "make modules_install"
6. "make install"
7. That's it - reboot now.
TaDa! it works.
I did force install of kernel-3.5.2-3. Then grub2-install. Then
grub2-mkconfig. Same problem. Each time I needed to edit the grub stanza
to replace UUID with /dev/sda2.
Then tried dracut -f .
That worked.
You can see the dracut generated initramfs is slightly smaller the
tmp/initramfs that was bundled with the kernel:
ls -l initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
tmp/initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19584183 Aug 27 16:01
initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19614729 Aug 27 15:08
tmp/initramfs-3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64.img
Thanks for all the help. I never would have figured this one out.
sean
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