F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[cornel panceac]

chroot ... , mkinitrd ...
it should work imho with f8 rescue cd.

2008/2/24, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
>
> cornel panceac wrote:
> > is your grub.conf ok?
>
> I was going to say, "of course," but then I remembered that there's a
> stanza that shouldn't be there.
>
> No, it's not a problem with the grub configuration. I can load the
> kernel and its matching initrd, and the parameters look fine.
>
> At present I think Andrew's pointed to the correct problem. Now my
> challenge is to implement it.
>
> What I need is an F9a rescue CD, or failing that a reasonable
> approximation.
>
>
> The current status is this.
>
> I've downloaded the kernel Andrew pointed out and unpacked it with
> rpm2cpio and cpio.
>
> I've created a tarball on a USB disk, and then unpacked it into the
> broken system.
>
> I can boot the kernel, but as it doesn't have built-in drivers for my
> SATA hardware, it very quickly dies.
>
> I'm back to wondering how to get an initrd into the box. I cannot create
> on on that system. Possibly I can copy one from it and patch it on
> another system. That might be worth a try.
>
> Meanwhile, more suggestions are welcome.
>
>
> >
> > 2008/2/24, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
> >> 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 2.6.24kernel
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>> [1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> John
> >>
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