F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 09:22:23 UTC 2008


if i was you, i\ll mount the filesystem readonly (using any live cd, like
system rescue cd), backup data, and try to fix file system.
also it my be related with:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431647


2008/2/24, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
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