F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[John Summerfield]

Andrew Farris wrote:

> 
> I suspect you've got the 54 or 64 kernel installed [1], both of which 
> fail for many people with the 'switch_root: no such file' error.  
> Backing it down to the 40 kernel may get you farther into the boot and 
> maybe show whether or not the volume group issue goes away or not.  To 
> get it backed down you'll need to download the kernel, boot into a 
> rescue mode, chroot, and install the older kernel.
> 
> If this fails you might have to go farther back, getting a 2.6.24 kernel 
> to install, then when booted to that you may be able to install the 
> 2.6.25 rc kernel (2.6.25 kernels had some issues with mkinitrd when done 
> on a 2.6.25 kernel, I'm not sure if that is resolved).

At present I don't have any means of booting a Linux system that can
perform any maintenance on the system.

The kernel is a dot-64 job.

I just send this by clicking the wrong place!

I just wanted to add that I've downloaded the .65 kernel and converted 
it to a tarball, and when my f8 CD gets around to booting, I plan to 
simply untar it into / and then try to boot without an initrd.



> 
> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/
> 


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