F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[John Summerfield]

cornel panceac wrote:
> 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

I don't see any reason to suppose that's the problem.

The first problem is the kernel doesn't find the disks. At all.

> 
> 
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Cheers
>> John
>>
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