Andrew Farris 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.
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 have these kernels installed:
[summer@localhost ~]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9.x86_64
kernel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.x86_64
kernel-2.6.25-0.73.rc3.git1.fc9.x86_64
[summer@localhost ~]$
only kernel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.x86_64 boots, all later ones including your
65 fail in the same way.
This should identify the hardware without being too verbose:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub
(rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 HECI
Controller (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM Gigabit Network
Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Contoller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HO (ICH8DO) LPC Interface
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port
SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/
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