No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

[Dr P Dupre]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:

>
> --- Dr P Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>
>>
> ==========================================================================
>>>>   Patrick DUPRE                      |   |
>>>>   Department of Chemistry            |   |
>> Phone:
>>>> (44)-(0)-1904-434384
>>>>   The University of York             |   |
>> Fax:
>>>> (44)-(0)-1904-432516
>>>>   Heslington                         |   |
>>>>   York YO10 5DD  United Kingdom      |   |
>> email:
>>>> pd520 at york.ac.
>>>
>>> uk
>>>>
>>>
>>
> ==========================================================================
>>>>
2B2B2B>>>> --
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
> If you do an ls in /boot directory, what do you see?
>
> is the kernel in there,
config-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7      System.map-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
config-2.6.23.12-52.fc7       System.map-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
grub/                         vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img  vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img


>
> What does
> $ rpm -qa kernel
> return?
kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
kernel-doc-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
kernel-headers-2.6.23.12-52.fc7

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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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