[solved] Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] ia64 nfs install error

[Paul Wouters]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Paul Wouters wrote:

> The real problem is:
>
> md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "VolGroup00/LogVol00" or unknown-block(0,0)

[...]

> My kernel does appear in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/, but no ramdisk image is
> available. Using the rescue cdrom, i chroot'ed into the installed image,
> and ran mkinitrd and updated elilo.conf by adding the initrd= line.
>
> Then it loaded the initrd, abd Red Hat nash booted, but I got an error:
>
> FATAL: Error inserting ext3 (/lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.ia64/ext3.ko): 
> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown paramter (see dmesg)

> Since I generated the initrd from the installed kernel modules, I am not
> sure why the modules have unknown symbols....

I redid the mkinitrd using all the force options, eg:

mkinitrd --force-scsi-probe --force-raid-probe --force-lvm-probe

My fedora-ia64 now boots properly.

Cheers,

Paul