2008/2/24, John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Andrew Farris wrote:
>
> I suspect you've got the 54 or 64 kernel installed [1], both of which
> fail for many people with the 'switch_root: no such file' error.
> Backing it down to the 40 kernel may get you farther into the boot and
> maybe show whether or not the volume group issue goes away or not. To
> get it backed down you'll need to download the kernel, boot into a
> rescue mode, chroot, and install the older kernel.
>
> If this fails you might have to go farther back, getting a 2.6.24 kernel
> to install, then when booted to that you may be able to install the
> 2.6.25 rc kernel (2.6.25 kernels had some issues with mkinitrd when done
> on a 2.6.25 kernel, I'm not sure if that is resolved).
At present I don't have any means of booting a Linux system that can
perform any maintenance on the system.
The kernel is a dot-64 job.
>
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/
>
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Cheers
John
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