F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[John Summerfield]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Andr

>>
>> If this fails you might have to go farther back, getting a 2.6.24 
>> kernel to install, then when booted to that you may be able to 
>> install the 2.6.25 rc kernel (2.6.25 kernels had some issues with 
>> mkinitrd when done on a 2.6.25 kernel, I'm not sure if that is 
>> resolved).
> At present I have these kernels installed:
> [summer at localhost ~]$ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.25-0.69.rc3.git1.fc9.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.x86_64
> kernel-2.6.25-0.73.rc3.git1.fc9.x86_64
> [summer at localhost ~]$
>
> only kernel-2.6.23.1-31.fc8.x86_64 boots, all later ones including 
> your 65 fail in the same way.

Before you ask, kernel-2.6.25-0.78.rc3.git1.fc9 fails the same way.

A present the status of this system is it's become a Windows box. The 
only application that is of interest to me is virtualisation.
The xen kernel doesn't boot (different reason), it simply fails then 
reboots before I can read anything useful.
KVM guests become unresponsive after a while;
. I cannot install even the most basic CentOS5 system before it stops.
. A Knoppix remastering script doesn't complete, the Debian system it's 
running on stops before it completes (takes around 80 minutes).

I think it likely some of my problems will resolve when I find a new 
kernel that boots.