F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[John Summerfield]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> 5. Booting an F8 rescue CD. I forgot the pci=nomsi,nommconf trick 
>>> (which also works for Knoppix 5.1 on the same hardware), but it 
>>> didn't stop there, when last I looked it was taking ages running 
>>> /sbin/loader.
>>
>> The f8 rescue CD boots, but is unable to help. When I try to chroot 
>> into the installed image, I get "Exec format error."
>>
>> rpm from the rescue CD cannot install rpms on the f9alpha system.
> 
> Sorry I meant from the rawhide rescue image, but it appears not to be 

That's okay, I was replying to myself, before I saw your earlier reply.

> anywhere right now (I guess images haven't built in awhile).  The F9 
> Alpha may let you get into a rescue environment though.
> 
I don't have any F9Plpha boot media, and I've not located any.
I can download this: 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/0.65.rc2.git7.fc9/x86_64/
and unpack it, and create a bootable CD (I have a script someplace that 
puts grub on a CD, adding a kernel might not be difficult) or usb disk 
(I suppose I can get it from the BIOS and hence from existing grub).

I'll work on that until someone has a better idea.


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