On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 16:33 -0500, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Sorry for the flooding but my investigations is goin' further into > the problem. > > Looking at the content of /boot > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 160270 Oct 5 11:58 config-4.2.3- > 300.fc23.x86_64 > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Oct 29 17:26 efi > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 184380 Oct 21 2014 elf-memtest86+-5.01 > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 29 17:23 extlinux > drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Dec 23 15:18 grub2 > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 52373550 Dec 22 23:07 initramfs-0-rescue- > 4f585391395b40e3823bebd86a3e6c01.img > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 17771095 Dec 22 23:07 initramfs-4.2.3- > 300.fc23.x86_64.img > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 571817 Oct 29 17:27 initrd-plymouth.img > drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Dec 22 23:01 lost+found > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 182704 Oct 21 2014 memtest86+-5.01 > -rw-------. 1 root root 3152021 Oct 5 11:58 System.map-4.2.3- > 300.fc23.x86_64 > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5977368 Dec 22 23:07 vmlinuz-0-rescue- > 4f585391395b40e3823bebd86a3e6c01 > -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5977368 Oct 5 11:59 vmlinuz-4.2.3- > 300.fc23.x86_64 > > it seems that initrd for tmy kernel is missing and also tryin' to > manually boot from the grub menu let the system fail. > > My impression is that the whole fedora installation tool failed and > I've a partial system but I can' t find more on this. I' m quite > ready to give up and try to install a different flavor of linux. Re-install, Fedora or otherwise, might be the quick fix. But I don't see that initrd is missing. My current top level for boot is: >ls -1 /boot config-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 config-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64 config-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 elf-memtest86+-5.01 extlinux grub2 initramfs-0-rescue-c10a26eb97b3451f95a20a792c5a897d.img initramfs-4.1.7-200.fc22.x86_64.img initramfs-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64.img initramfs-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64.img initramfs-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64.img initrd-plymouth.img lost+found memtest86+-5.01 System.map-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 System.map-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64 System.map-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 vmlinuz-0-rescue-c10a26eb97b3451f95a20a792c5a897d vmlinuz-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64 vmlinuz-4.2.7-300.fc23.x86_64 vmlinuz-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64 Notice that the init fs files are named as yours is. -- Doug H. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org