cornel panceac wrote:
is your grub.conf ok?
I was going to say, "of course," but then I remembered that there's a
stanza that shouldn't be there.
No, it's not a problem with the grub configuration. I can load the
kernel and its matching initrd, and the parameters look fine.
At present I think Andrew's pointed to the correct problem. Now my
challenge is to implement it.
What I need is an F9a rescue CD, or failing that a reasonable approximation.
The current status is this.
I've downloaded the kernel Andrew pointed out and unpacked it with
rpm2cpio and cpio.
I've created a tarball on a USB disk, and then unpacked it into the
broken system.
I can boot the kernel, but as it doesn't have built-in drivers for my
SATA hardware, it very quickly dies.
I'm back to wondering how to get an initrd into the box. I cannot create
on on that system. Possibly I can copy one from it and patch it on
another system. That might be worth a try.
Meanwhile, more suggestions are welcome.
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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