No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7

[Dr P Dupre]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Antonio Olivares wrote:

>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Dr P Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk>
>> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 2:21:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: No way to boot on 2.6.23.12-52.fc7
>>
>>
> 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
>
> *** message truncated ****
>> 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
>
>
Can you remove the line

  #        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro
  root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
  selinux=0
Yes, I already tried to remove this line without success.

so that it matches the

title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)

one.  If you have done that, and it did not work, then there might be
something wrong with the initrd/or something else.

Yes, but what ??????

The other strange thing is that when I replace the initrd which does not
work by the one works, it does not help. I have other kinds of errors.

Regards,

Antonio

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