FC6T3 x86-64 booting issue

Tomas Lanik tomas.lanik at kvantanet.com
Wed Sep 20 23:06:28 UTC 2006


Neither manually...
Networking started OK but yum crashes on
# yum update kernel
with corruption of rpmdb....

I giving up spending 1/2 day with this

may be FC6T4 will do... but I think t3 should not have been released at all!
>
> After trying to set up eth0 interface using DHCP it just spawns some 
> "giberish" chars on me!!!!
> The special char-art already appears when entering the shell in resue 
> mode but this time really freezes the machine.
> Awful stuff! after hangs forever so... bye bye yum followed by 
> CTRL-ALT-DEL ---> Kernel Panic!!!
> Will try setup the networking manually...
>
> tomas
>
> Tomas Lanik wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Yum update sounds great!
>> will give it a try...
>>
>> tomas
>>
>>
>> ronald wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas how to make FC6T3 boot?
>>>>
>>> what's about a rescue boot and
>>>
>>> yum update kernel ???
>>>
>>>
>>> if it's a *t3* only
>>> then
>>>     there is a new kernel in rawhide
>>> else
>>>     a manual download of an other [newer|elder] kernel
>>>     and an rpm -ivh kernel-xxx [--oldpackage]
>>> fi
>>>
>>> means: i would the install routine let do the work.
>>>
>>> maybe a check what's *in* the initrd then agains what has the rescue 
>>> environment loaded (lsmod) related to sata, dm,... .
>>> esp. look at entries with dm ...
>>>
>>> rescue mode seems -iirc- to work !
>>> network ?
>>> why dealing with complicated stuff ?
>>>
>>> maybe i check an i86_64 install later ...
>>>
>>
>




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