Cannot boot

[Jim Cornette]

mike wrote:
> i have just done a ftp install (no cdrom), install went fine but now it
> wont boot.
> 
> It stops with "cannot mount /dev/hda2 due to unsupported optional
> features"
> 
> Also no initrd is installed
> 
> Any one any idea how I can get this to boot?
> 
> 

This problem sounds like you will have to use one of your prior Boot 
CDROMS and go into rescue mode. Hopefully, it will find a valid Fedora 
Linux Installation.

If it finds an installation, it should tell you something like chroot 
/mnt/sysimage/ (not sure of what it exactly says).

After you are chrooted to your non-booting ftp installation. Try to 
mkintird /boot/mykernelversion.img 2.6.mykernelversion and wait for the 
mkintird process to complete.

If chroot puts you in multiuser mode, switch to another terminal and 
check your /boot/grub/grub.conf file to see if things will match what 
you specified for your manually created intird image.

I'd file a bug report against anaconda to inform developers of the 
current rawhide tree install.

You might wat to check your /root directory (not /) to see what anaconda 
and the install text files reveal about the ftp install.

Good Luck! I'm fighting multiple installation of different packages and 
other issues. I'll probably just do an ftp install myself since my test 
SELinux version is well beyond easy managability. Also with the many 
package changes with X, kernel, SELinux  recently.


Jim