[Fedora-ia64-list] Still non-bootable kernel/mkinitrd?

[Emeric Maschino <maschino jouy inra fr>]

Hi and Happy New Year!

Since there's still no installation image in the current Fedora ia64
development tree (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ia64-list/2005-
December/msg00000.html), I've installed as a starting point a minimal
RHEL 4 Beta 2 (Nahant) distribution using the default settings on the
second HDD of my hp workstation zx6000. I've then updated it to Fedora
Core using yum update (SELinux disabled) and all packages were
installed/updated and cleaned flawlessly. But now my system isn't
bootable: the kernel (2.6.14-1.1806_FC5) fails to find the root LVM
volume and crashes miserably.

Following advice in https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ia64-
list/2005-August/msg00018.html, I've recompiled the 2.6.14-1.1806_FC5
kernel including SCSI support, SCSI disk support, MPT Fusion driver and
device-mapper driver into the kernel. No luck.

Is there anybody out there having a bootable Fedora Core installation
using the standard kernel? It seems there hasn't been a lot of changes
in this direction since my previous post dated September 2005 :-(
Has something changed in the manner the partitions are created/named
between RHEL 4 and Fedora Core that would mess the Fedora Core boot
process in my situation?

I don't know if my problem is related to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169059. In order to
check this, I need to recompile mkinitrd 4.2.21-1 but I can't find the
mkinitrd-4.2.21-1.src.rpm source package anymore. Is it still available
somewhere on Earth?

Thanks,

   Émeric