FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

[Tomas Lanik]

Hi,
Thank for the answer.
I have just tried make the initrd compressed but the result is the same...
I didnt have problems booting with FC6T2 on the same machine. I have 
switched to FC6T2 because I could not apply any updates for some strange 
dependencies with nautilus package after t3 was released.

cheers

tomas


alan wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Tomas Lanik wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> I am unable to boot FC6T3 x86-64... on (AMD64X2, 4GB DDR2, SATA II, 
>> Asus M2N-E)
>> The initrd image is missing in  /boot directory.
>> I have tried to fix the issue by creating initrd image as suggested 
>> by alan <alan clueserver org>:
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, sean wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I've been unsuccessful in installing t3 from dvd on a standard intel
>>  x86-64 chipset box. I think the problem is that I have one partition
>>  ( not root ) that's lvm. I asssume this will all be fixed for t4.
>>  Has anybody figured out how to install before then?
>> Yep.  I posted it earlier.
>>
>>
>> After you do the install, boot with the "rescue option" on the 
>> install dvd.
>>
>> When you get a prompt:
>>
>> chroot /mnt/sysmount
>> cd /boot
>> mkinitrd --image-version --nocompress initrd `uname -r`
>>
>> Then add this line to the /etc/grub.conf entry:
>> initrd /initrd-<kernelversion>
>>
>> save, sync and reboot.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> with following result:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> root(hd0,0)
>> FileSystem Type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6 ro root=/dev/basevg/rootlv rhgb quiet
>> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x20865b]
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>> [Linux-initrd @ 0xdf916000, 0x5b9800 bytes]
>>
>> Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
>> Press any key to continue...
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>>
>> Any ideas how to make FC6T3 boot?
>
> Have you tried without the "--nocompress" option?
>