Still "F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems persists"

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Mar 16 21:11:21 UTC 2008


Andrew Farris wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> Andrew Farris wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> See my earlier posts for details; this still persists.
>>>>
>>>> I've not noticed that anyone's asking for information.
>>>>
>>>> Photo at http://js.id.au/img2038.jpeg
>>>> It's a bit blurry, I think the camera doesn't handle the contrast 
>>>> well, but it is legible.
>>>
>>> I've had this on some kernels and not on others, but what is more 
>>> interesting is it can go away depending on what kernel you installed 
>>> them from.  There was talk of a mkinitrd error when installing from 
>>> 2.6.24 kernels, but I get that problem for some kernels when I 
>>> install from 2.6.23-1 and not for others, and sometimes they install 
>>> fine from the latest.
>>>
>>> My advice.. keep lots of prior kernels, I've currently got 
>>> installonlyn=10, and I've locked the oldest kernel to not get removed as 
>> I was wondering about this:
>> installonly_limit=8
>> installonlypkgs=kernel*
>>
>> I then did a
>> yum install kernel
>>
>> and there was only one left.
> 
> Sorry I for the delay.  What I have setup is this:
> 
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.conf
> [main]
> enabled = 1
> locklist = /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list
> 
> /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list
> 0:kernel-2.6.24.1-28.fc9.i686
> 0:kernel-2.6.25-0.40.rc1.git2.fc9.i686
> 0:kernel-2.6.25-0.82.rc3.git2.fc9.i686
> 
> You need to have fixed yum-versionlock which is broken, see bz:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433581
> 
> By default the kernel is included in installonlypkgs, so you don't 
> really need to set that (and there may be others included in default 
> you're not now including).
> 
> The newer kernels are installing fine for me from 2.6.24.1-28 (which is 
> why I still have it).
> 

I have updated the bug report:
1 Change component to kernel
2 Reassign
3 Attach new boot log

I have built a kernel sans modules from the source in 
kernel-2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9.src.rpm



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