On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jerry Williams wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:11:28 -0600 > From: Jerry Williams <jwilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases > <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Broken Kernel since 2.6.15 > > I was running FC4 and I was running fine until the kernel-2.6.16. > I kept my older kernel-2.6.15 and 2.6.14 which worked just fine. > The newer kernels can't seem to find my SATA disks. > [Bug 187641] kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 SATA panic > [Bug 199034] SATA -> Failed to set xfermode -> Kernel panic > I received an email saying: > >FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will continue > >to > >release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not > >security > >related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been > >migrated > >to FC5. > > >Please retest with Fedora Core 5. > > >Thank you. > > > I decided to upgrade to FC5 since it still had a kernel-2.6.15. > Now my system won't boot. > I also tried the latest kernel-2.6.17, same thing. > I feel like fedora has pulled the plug on my system. > > The funny thing is that I can boot from the DVD and go into rescue mode and > it finds the drive just fine. > > So my question is what do I have to do to make a cdrom that I can boot from > and find my disk and load everything else from disk? > > I tried a grub floppy, and that worked, but only for the kernels that worked > without it. So it didn't buy me anything. > > So I think the cdrom has to have the kernel on it. > > Maybe you could try Centos 4.4 LiveCD. I had rather good experiences with it (except that disk performance was poor on one Compaq EVO, about 1/6 of normal transfer rate). It handles LVM2, has growisofs and cdrecord working well. Best regards, Wojtek -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list