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

[Tom Brinkman]

On Sunday 17 December 2006 9:48 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 8:15 pm, Dave Jones wrote:
> > 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
>
>    Thanks for your interest, but no go

>    df for rawhide is,
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb1             9.9G  4.4G  5.1G  47% /
> /dev/hda1              92M   50M   37M  58% /boot
> tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hdb2              27G  5.7G   20G  23% /home
> /dev/hda8              41G   25G   14G  64% /stor2
> /dev/sda1             151G  119G   25G  84% /stor4

   2889 Boots! after todays (12/20) updates, includin mkinitrd.   
Thanks Dave et al.

  $ uname -r
2.6.19-1.2889.fc7
  $ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             9.9G  4.5G  5.0G  48% /
/dev/sda1              92M   56M   32M  65% /boot
tmpfs                 502M     0  502M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2              27G  5.7G   20G  23% /home
/dev/sda8              41G   25G   14G  65% /stor2
/dev/sdc1             151G  119G   25G  84% /stor4

    BTW, FC6 (2860) also still boots.
 ~ $ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6             9.7G  4.7G  4.6G  51% /
/dev/hda1              92M   56M   32M  65% /boot
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7              24G  8.3G   14G  38% /home
/dev/hda8              41G   25G   14G  65% /stor2
/dev/sda1             151G  119G   25G  84% /stor4

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    Tom Brinkman                        Corpus Christi, Texas