kernel-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 does not boot

William Murray bill.murray at stfc.ac.uk
Sat Dec 13 16:41:05 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 12:55 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
> Hm. my laptop gives:
> 
> could not start boot splash: No such file or directory.
> 
> I do have LVM running, but I don't think I did anything special there:
> This is /etc/fstab
> 
> tmpfs	/dev/shm	tmpfs	defaults	0	0
> devpts	/dev/pts	devpts	gid=5,mode=620	0	0
> sysfs	/sys	sysfs	defaults	0	0
> proc	/proc	proc	defaults	0	0
> /dev/dm-1	/	ext3	defaults	1	1
> #Entry for /dev/sda2 :
> UUID=4995730b-4622-40f9-a716-f4e708641307	/boot	ext3	defaults	1	2
> #Entry for /dev/sda1 :
> UUID=F43842EF3842B102	/media/windows	ntfs-3g
> defaults,nosuid,nodev,locale=en_GB.utf8	0	0
> /dev/dm-2	swap	swap	defaults	0	0
> 
> I can still boot the old kernel. Any ideas anyone?
> BTW, if I disable RGB the boot goes further, but suddenly blanks the
> screen and stops.
>           Thanks,
>                  Bill
> 
Well...I don't understand the defining silence. My desktop, x86_84,
shows exactly the same problem with the new kernel. NEITHER WILL BOOT!
Can anyone suggest what I could check?
            Bill


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