How to adapt F9 initrd to new motherboard/chipset, was: F9 doesn't find swap or /root system on new motherboard

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M. Fioretti wrote:

> I had fedora 9 x86_64 merrily running on an AMD /ASUS A8N-VM CSM
> motherboard with nVidia chipset (GE6150). The board died without warning,

check these pages before you give up on mainboard;

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/capacitor-failures-plague-motherboard-vendors-2003027/
http://ask.metafilter.com/20940/Blown-capacitors-and-power-supply-problems
http://www.badcaps.net/

and if you want more;

http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&q=capacitor+AND+%22bad+OR+fail%22+AND+%22power+supply%22&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=capacitor+AND+%22bad+OR+fail%22+AND+%22mainboard%22&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=20&lr=lang_en&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=all&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images

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peace out.

tc,hago.

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