Andrew Farris <lordmorgul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > The box in question doesn't boot Linux atm, so getting info is > > difficult, so I'll try the easy option first. If needs, I can > > connect a serial cable and something else. For them moment I will > > describe messages rather than quote them > > It was running F8 quite well, and then I enabled development and ran > > "yum upgrade" > > More precisely, > > echo yum -y upgrade | at midnight > > When that had finished, seamonkey crashed and I decided on the > > balance of things, a reboot was in order. > > As supplied, it had 80 Gbytes disk and no DVD; I've added a DVD > > burner and replaced the original drive with 320 Gbytes and added 512 > > Gbytes. > > It displays the usual boot messages and finishes with something like > > "the boot has failed" pretty much straight after "switch_root: no > > such file" > 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. Probably a mkinitrd problem... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
