is your grub.conf ok? <div>2008/2/24, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Andrew Farris wrote: > > I suspect you've got the 54 or 64 kernel installed [1], both of which > fail for many people with the 'switch_root: no such file' error. > Backing it down to the 40 kernel may get you farther into the boot and > maybe show whether or not the volume group issue goes away or not. To > get it backed down you'll need to download the kernel, boot into a > rescue mode, chroot, and install the older kernel. > > 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 don't have any means of booting a Linux system that can perform any maintenance on the system. The kernel is a dot-64 job. > > [1] <a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/">http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/</a> > -- Cheers John -- spambait <a href="mailto:1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu">1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu</a> <a href="mailto:Z1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu">Z1aaaaaaa@coco.merseine.nu</a> -- Advice <a href="http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php">http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php</a> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</a> <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375</a> You cannot reply off-list:-) -- fedora-test-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- Linux counter #213090