FC4 - AMD Opteron x86_64 fails - "fix"
frenzy at frenzy.org
frenzy at frenzy.org
Tue Jun 21 23:44:47 UTC 2005
In short, 'linux' is failing to boot for me on an opteron board. Below is
more detail on the problem and a workaround.
I have a Tyan S2882 mobo with an adaptec 29320a scsi card. I am getting a
kernel failure with the x86_64 disk-1. I've tried numerous linux <options
here> at the boot prompt, all with the same result.
VFS: cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown block(3,2)
Please append a correct root=
...
The i386 install works fine, so I could install that then upgrade, but I'd
like to figure out why this is happening, or if it's happened to anyone
else.
After searching for a bit, I came upon the following fix as described in
Bugzilla Bug 159026.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026
This should be useful for those of you who didn't catch the original
author's post.
Instead of doing the normal 'linux text' or similar at the boot prompt,
try the following:
'linux42' - This will fail.
'linux text'
- Repartition drive, then reboot with the steps listed above. (The first
run through didn't recognize the new partitions I made.)
For some reason this works. Only if you type in a boot message which
errors first though.
Could someone explain why this works only if you have a previous image
load failure?
Cheers,
Randy
http://www.frenzy.org
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