No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

[Dr P Dupre]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:

>
> --- pd520 at york.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I do not understand, I still cannot boot on the new
>> kernel:
>> 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
>>
>> This is my grub.conf:
>> boot=/dev/sda
>> default=0
>> timeout=10
>> splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> hiddenmenu
>> password --md5 $1$Ey8yydw2$Ia5NHuLvdjduWOKIJM57u0
>> title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
>>          root (hd0,7)
>> #        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
>> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>> selinux=0
>>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
>> root=/dev/sda8 rhgb quiet
>> selinux=0
>>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
>>
>>
>> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
>>          root (hd0,7)
>>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro
>> root=/dev/sda8 rhgb
>> quiet selinux=0
>>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
>>
>>
>> I have not problem to boot on: 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
>> With the new kernel, if I put:
>> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
>> root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>> selinux=0
>>
>> if fails because it try to boot on a /dev/sdb, so I
>> force it to boot on
>> /dev/sda8, but I get:
>> setuproot: moving /dev failed No such file or
>> directory
>> setuproot: error mounting /proc
>> setuproot: error mounting /sys
>>
>> In what these 2 kernels are so different ?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> ---
>>
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>>   Patrick DUPRE                      |   |
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>> --
>
> If changing from root=/ to
> root=/dev/sda8
> does not work, remove the kernel through yum then
> reinstall it and see if that cures your problem.
>
> BTW, that kernel is working for me

I already tried something similar. I remove the kernel by using rpm -e
then I made yum update kernel
This does not install the last version of the kernel, but anyway,
the software updater finally reinstall the last the version.

>
>
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.12-52.fc7 #1 SMP
> Tue Dec 18 21:18:02 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> [olivares at localhost ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means
> that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,1)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
>        root (hd0,1)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>        initrd /initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
> title Fedora (2.6.23.8-34.fc7)
>        root (hd0,1)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.8-34.fc7 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>        initrd /initrd-2.6.23.8-34.fc7.img
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>
>

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Patrick Dupré                                             pd520 at york.ac.uk
University of York                                 Department of Chemistry
Heslington, York              YO10 5DD                      United Kingdom
Phone: +44-(0)-1904-434384                        Fax: +44-(0)-1904-432516
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