No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 3 20:04:19 UTC 2008
--- pd520 at york.ac.uk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I do not understand, I still cannot boot on the new
> kernel:
> 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
>
> This is my grub.conf:
> boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> password --md5 $1$Ey8yydw2$Ia5NHuLvdjduWOKIJM57u0
> title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
> root (hd0,7)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> selinux=0
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet
> selinux=0
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
>
>
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> root (hd0,7)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/sda8 rhgb
> quiet selinux=0
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
>
>
> I have not problem to boot on: 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
> With the new kernel, if I put:
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> selinux=0
>
> if fails because it try to boot on a /dev/sdb, so I
> force it to boot on
> /dev/sda8, but I get:
> setuproot: moving /dev failed No such file or
> directory
> setuproot: error mounting /proc
> setuproot: error mounting /sys
>
> In what these 2 kernels are so different ?
>
> Regards
>
> ---
>
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If changing from root=/ to
root=/dev/sda8
does not work, remove the kernel through yum then
reinstall it and see if that cures your problem.
BTW, that kernel is working for me
[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 #1 SMP
Tue Dec 18 21:18:02 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[olivares at localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means
that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.23.8-34.fc7)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.8-34.fc7.img
Regards,
Antonio
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