FC7 yum upgrade

[stan]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:12:47 +0300
Catalin Bucur <cata at geniusnet.ro> wrote:

> stan wrote:
> >> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> >> 	root (hd0,1)
> >> 	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=Cata
> >> 	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
> >>
> > The only difference I see between my F7 setup which works fine and
> > yours is that I don't have the /boot in front of the kernel and
> > initrd.  I have a separate /boot partition, though.  
> 
> Yes, it's because of your /boot partition.
> Could you help me some other way please?
> 
> # mkdir /tmp/initrd
> # cd /tmp/initrd
> # gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.[...].fc7.img | cpio -idmv
> # cat init
# cat init
#!/bin/nash

mount -t proc /proc /proc
setquiet
echo Mounting proc filesystem
echo Mounting sysfs filesystem
mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
echo Creating /dev
mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev
mkdir /dev/pts
mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts
mkdir /dev/shm
mkdir /dev/mapper
echo Creating initial device nodes
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
mknod /dev/systty c 4 0
mknod /dev/tty c 5 0
mknod /dev/console c 5 1
mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2
mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135
mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0
mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1
mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2
mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3
mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4
mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5
mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6
mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7
mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8
mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9
mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10
mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11
mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12
mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
echo Setting up hotplug.
hotplug
echo Creating block device nodes.
mkblkdevs
echo "Loading uhci-hcd.ko module"
insmod /lib/uhci-hcd.ko 
echo "Loading ohci-hcd.ko module"
insmod /lib/ohci-hcd.ko 
echo "Loading ehci-hcd.ko module"
insmod /lib/ehci-hcd.ko 
mount -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb
echo "Loading mbcache.ko module"
insmod /lib/mbcache.ko 
echo "Loading jbd.ko module"
insmod /lib/jbd.ko 
echo "Loading ext3.ko module"
insmod /lib/ext3.ko 
echo "Loading scsi_mod.ko module"
insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko 
echo "Loading sd_mod.ko module"
insmod /lib/sd_mod.ko 
echo "Loading libata.ko module"
insmod /lib/libata.ko 
echo "Loading ata_generic.ko module"
insmod /lib/ata_generic.ko 
echo "Loading pata_amd.ko module"
insmod /lib/pata_amd.ko 
echo Waiting for driver initialization.
stabilized --hash --interval 250 /proc/scsi/scsi
insmod /lib/scsi_wait_scan.ko
rmmod scsi_wait_scan
mkblkdevs
resume LABEL=SWAP-sdb3
echo Creating root device.
mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro sda2
echo Mounting root filesystem.
mount /sysroot
echo Setting up other filesystems.
setuproot
echo Switching to new root and running init.
switchroot
echo Booting has failed.
sleep -1

> 
> Can you post the result from the last command here? I want to see
> what modules are loading from your initrd file. And tell me if you
> have only ide drives.
Yes, only ide drives.
> 
> Thank you,

It seems you are much more knowledgeable than me about these things.
Glad I don't have the problem, because if you can't solve it, I
couldn't. :-)