FC5 system won't boot after update

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

John DeDourek wrote:
> Just did a rather massive yum update of an FC5 system.  The update
> include updating
> kernel from  .... to 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
> 
> System is an IBM Thinkpad T42
> 
> The system will not boot the new kernel.  Skipping the first lines (grub
> stuff) the screen
> shows:
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> 
> followed by the expected messages such as "moving /dev failed"
> 
> It almost looks like the boot things that it is coming out of "suspend"
> rather than
> booting the kernel, unless the wording of that message is bogus about
> "unable to access resume device".  Any ideas anyone?
> 
The "unable to access resume device" is the kernel trying to see if
it is a fresh boot, or a resume after hibernation. From the
prospective of GRUB, they are the same. The kernel then checks the
swap space for a hibernation signature, to help it decide weather to
do a fresh boot, or a resume. This looks more like you have a bad
Initial RAM disk. The kernel is not able to access the Logical
Volumes for some reason.

Mikkel
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