On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:56:51PM -0700, Corey Henderson wrote:
> On 12/21/2011 7:44 PM, fred smith wrote:
> > Just did an in-place update from 6.1 to 6.2 on my eeepc 901 (Atom CPU).
> >
> > during boot, (if I hit ESC to see the boot messages) it says "starging udev"
> > then nothing else for a few seconds, then a huge register dump scrolls
> > by. it's too big to see the beginning of it.
> >
> > If I boot from the prior kernel and look in /var/log/messages, I don't
> > see any evidence of the failed boot.
> >
> > I've seen the other thread titled "kernel panic", and it seems to be
> > due to a missing initramfs, but there is an initramfs for 2.6.32-220.el6
> > already in /boot, so I don't think that would be the problem.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest how I would isolate what's going on here?
> >
>
> Take a peek at what is inside the initramfs file:
>
> ~ $ mkdir initramfs
> ~ $ cd initramfs/
> ~/initramfs $ gzip -d < /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64.img | cpio -id
> 73012 blocks
> ~/initramfs $ ls
> bin cmdline dev dracut-004-256.el6 emergency etc init initqueue
> initqueue-finished initqueue-settled initqueue-timeout lib lib64
> mount pre-pivot pre-trigger pre-udev proc sbin sys sysroot tmp
> usr var
> ~/initramfs $ find lib/modules -name '*.ko'
> <snip>
>
> If a module that is required to mount your system (ext3/4, dm_dm-raid,
> etc - very system dependent) isn't in there, then the system won't be
> able to boot. Sometimes they don't get added automatically, for whatever
> reason. If you're able to identify the missing driver, edit this file:
>
> /etc/dracut.conf
>
> And add a line like this:
>
> add_drivers+="name-of-driver"
>
> Then re-run dracut. If you don't know how to do that, then you probably
> should just rpm -e that kernel package, then re-install it.
>
> Hope this helps.
Corey, would it be a ligitimate comparison to unpack both the initramfs
for the new kernel and for the most recent prior one, then compare the
list of kernel modules?
thanks for the suggestion!
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