FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

Tomas Lanik tomas.lanik at kvantanet.com
Wed Sep 20 20:05:50 UTC 2006


hi,
I am unable to boot FC6T3 x86-64... on (AMD64X2, 4GB DDR2, SATA II, Asus 
M2N-E)
The initrd image is missing in  /boot directory.
I have tried to fix the issue by creating initrd image as suggested by 
alan <alan clueserver org>:
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, sean wrote:


   I've been unsuccessful in installing t3 from dvd on a standard intel
   x86-64 chipset box. I think the problem is that I have one partition
   ( not root ) that's lvm. I asssume this will all be fixed for t4.
   Has anybody figured out how to install before then?
Yep.  I posted it earlier.


After you do the install, boot with the "rescue option" on the install dvd.

When you get a prompt:

chroot /mnt/sysmount
cd /boot
mkinitrd --image-version --nocompress initrd `uname -r`

Then add this line to the /etc/grub.conf entry:
 initrd /initrd-<kernelversion>

save, sync and reboot.

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with following result:

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root(hd0,0)
FileSystem Type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6 ro root=/dev/basevg/rootlv rhgb quiet
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x20865b]
initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
  [Linux-initrd @ 0xdf916000, 0x5b9800 bytes]

Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Press any key to continue...

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Any ideas how to make FC6T3 boot?

Cheers

tomas




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