Re: athlon, can't boot 7.2, what to do?

["christopher j bottaro" <cjb cs utexas edu>]

i just solved my boot problems by booting with the "noathlon" option.  now
everything runs great.  i just appended "noathlon" to the line that starts
with "kernel" in the grub conf.

christopher

----- Original Message -----
From: "gregory mott" <gmott ultra net>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: athlon, can't boot 7.2, what to do?


> ok, i'd guess anyone having athlon boot problems after installing 7.2 will
> need to do this.  here's what got me going:
>
> before quitting athlon install (from virt console ctrl-alt-F2):
>        df
>        umount /mnt/source
>        # insert cd#1
>        mount -t iso9660 /tmp/hd(c) /mnt/source
>        cd /mnt/sysimage/boot
>        mv initrd-2.4.7-10.img{,~0}
>        cd grub
>        cp -a grub.conf{,~0}
>        rpm --root /mnt/sysimage -ivh --replacepkgs --replacefiles
> /mnt/source/Redhat/RPMS/kernel-2.4.7-10.i686.rpm
>        cp -a grub.conf{,~1}
>        cp -a grub.conf{~0,}
>        cd /
>
> i'm unsure whether the grub.conf dance was necessary afterall.  but it was
> quite necessary to move the athlon initrd img out of the way, rpm would
not
> replace it otherwise.
>
> >the release notes say use rescue mode to install a 686 kernel.  didn't
say
> >quite how.  i guessed:
> >
> >rpm --root /mnt/sysimage -ivh --replacepkgs --replacefiles
> >/mnt/source/kernel-2.4.7-10.i686.rpm
> >
> >was that wrong?  now i get a screenful of new problems.  am i still
having
> >athlon related problems, or what?
> >
> >my boot failure screen:
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol d_instantiate_R0465b454
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol journal_wipe_R61732b31
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol journal_force_commit_Ra669e011
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol blkdev_get_Rc1b875ab
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol unlock_buffer_Rb9f0d737
> >...
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol unregister_filesystem_Rc82447f9
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol bdput_R21178c01
> >/lib/ext3.o: unresolved symbol journal_restart_R2747f85d
> >ERROR: /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
> >Mounting /proc filesystem
> >Creating root device
> >Mounting root filesystem
> >mount: error 19 mounting ext3
> >pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> >Freeing unused kernel memory: 220k freed
> >Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
>
> gregory mott
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