Fedora Core 2 upgrade FAILURE

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 10:44:44AM -0700, Richard Emberson wrote:
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
> boot

Try without initrd and with root pointing to a device file
 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hda2
 boot
(or wherever is your root partition)

Initrd adds support for access by LABEL of root partition and for ext3,
that can be ignored in the meantime as an ext3 filesystem can be mounted
as an ext2.

(It also adds support for scsi and more uncommon hardware, that you
probably don't need. Anyway, try it.)

If it boots, create an initrd with mkinitrd and change grub's
configuration.

As an alternative, boot the installation kernel with the "rescue" option,
mount the partitions and then create the initrd.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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