[Fedora-livecd-list] cant find filesystem /dev/root

[Lane Brooks]

Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> Lane Brooks <lbrooks at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
>> I finally found a way around that I am posting to the list in case it
>> helps someone else.  Things started working when I started building
>> initrd using the --with ata_generic --with libata options.
> 
> Can you specify these options in the kickstart file while using
> revisor? How is the syntax?

Not that I am aware of.  The way I do it is to mount the image after it 
is done, use

mount --bind /sys <path_to_image_mount>/sys

to mount sys, update the fstab to point to my label:
LABEL=mylabel /   ext3  defaults 0 0

then run chroot into the mounted image

chroot <path_to_image_mount>

and then run mkinitrd

/sbin/mkinitrd --with libata --with ata_generic 
/boot/initrd-<kernel_ver>.img <kernel_ver>

I am not sure if there is a better way.

Lane








> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Lars
>> Lane Brooks wrote:
>>> I am using the latest image-creator tool from the git repo to create an
>>> custom fedora image based on fedora 8.
>>> When I try to boot either from the physical image or in qemu, I get
>>> the
>>> following error:
>>> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
>>> and then eventually switchroot fails and the system hangs.  I have
>>> tried
>>> the original kernel and the latest released kernel.  I have rebuilt
>>> initrd based on hda1, sda1, etc. in the /etc/fstab file and get the same
>>> problem.  I have tried grub, extlinux, and even booting directly in
>>> qemu.  No matter what I get this error.
>>> The only thing I have gotten to work is to download a vanilla kernel
>>> and
>>> build and install it manually.  It seems as though the fedora kernel
>>> does not find the ide drives, although I cannot verify this because the
>>> text scrolls too quickly for me to see.
>>> Anyone know what the problem is?  I am not sure if this is the best
>>> list
>>> to ask this question, so perhaps even suggesting a more appropriate list
>>> would be helpful too.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lane Brooks
> 
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