Warning: kernel-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 unbootable on Itanium systems(IA-64 architecture)

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dave Jones
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:15 PM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: Warning: kernel-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7 unbootable on Itanium
> systems(IA-64 architecture)
> 
> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:52:30AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> 
>  > > Probably the changes to use libata PATA drivers instead of the
>  > > old crusty IDE drivers at a guess.  The most obvious change being
>  > > the move from /dev/hd* to /dev/sd*.  If you're using
>  > > mount-by-label, that should 'just work' though, so perhaps either
>  > > the driver is broken, or it needs a workaround in mkinitrd like
>  > > the other PATA drivers to wait for the disk nodes to appear in
>  > > /dev before we go looking for volume groups.
>  > >
>  >     It panics, unable to mount on i386 without any LVM too. Asus
>  > A7V600, kt600 chipset, both pata an sata drives.  My / is on hd0,0
>  > an IDE pata drive.  The sata (all storage) appears to be found
>  > before the kernel panics on IDE.  All drives (2 pata, 1 sata) are
>  > ext3.
> 
> Hmm, I just managed to reproduce this on a similar box.
> Rerunning mkinitrd wasn't the answer though. The problem was that
> there were a ton of SELinux denials.
> 
> Can you try..
> 
> setenforce 0
> mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19-1.2877.fc7.img 2.6.19-1.2877.fc7
> 
> 		Dave
> 
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I'm curious if anyone has checked /boot/device.map to see if the proper
devices are mapped.