System not booting after yum updates

Craig Preston duffman23 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 00:53:34 UTC 2009


No I dont have the XFS file system. Fstab didn't have any special options as
far as I know.

2009/3/7 Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com>

> Do you have XFS as root file system? Do you have some some extra
> options provided for it in /etc/fstab, like relatime etc?
>
> I did. And above that I had sent my brain for annual maintenance and I
> decided to remove all previous kernels while I had nothing else to
> think of. So here is how I got it fixed:
>
> 1. Downloaded boot.iso for FC10 from one of the mirrors and made my
> USB key bootable using USB Creator.
> 2. Booted the system using it in rescue mode.
> 3. During the boot process of rescue mode, I allowed the mounting of
> my hard disk partitions in read-write mode.
> 4. Chroot'ed to /mnt/sysimage where my root partition was mounted.
> 5. edited my /etc/fstab (note this is fstab of my system which broke)
> and removed all other frills and just put 'defaults' as option for
> mounting root partition.
> 6. Forced re-install of the latest kernel (I still had the rpm lying
> in yum cache).
> 7. After that it was just normal sync, ctrl-d (to exit from chroot
> shell), and reboot.
>
> And I had my system up and running.
>
> Even if it is not XFS, you have hit a bug I think, which i found
> during my search today.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Vijay
>
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