chroot ... , mkinitrd ... it should work imho with f8 rescue cd. <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;"> cornel panceac wrote: > is your grub.conf ok? I was going to say, "of course," but then I remembered that there's a stanza that shouldn't be there. No, it's not a problem with the grub configuration. I can load the kernel and its matching initrd, and the parameters look fine. At present I think Andrew's pointed to the correct problem. Now my challenge is to implement it. What I need is an F9a rescue CD, or failing that a reasonable approximation. The current status is this. I've downloaded the kernel Andrew pointed out and unpacked it with rpm2cpio and cpio. I've created a tarball on a USB disk, and then unpacked it into the broken system. I can boot the kernel, but as it doesn't have built-in drivers for my SATA hardware, it very quickly dies. I'm back to wondering how to get an initrd into the box. I cannot create on on that system. Possibly I can copy one from it and patch it on another system. That might be worth a try. Meanwhile, more suggestions are welcome. > > 2008/2/24, John Summerfield <<a href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org">debian@herakles.homelinux.org</a>>: >> 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> >> > > > -- 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