F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sun Feb 24 15:43:41 UTC 2008


Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> > The box in question doesn't boot Linux atm, so getting info is
> > difficult, so I'll try the easy option first. If needs, I can
> > connect a serial cable and something else. For them moment I will
> > describe messages rather than quote them
> > It was running F8 quite well, and then I enabled development and ran
> > "yum upgrade"
> > More precisely,
> > echo yum -y upgrade | at midnight
> > When that had finished, seamonkey crashed and I decided on the
> > balance of things, a reboot was in order.
> > As supplied, it had 80 Gbytes disk and no DVD; I've added a DVD
> > burner and replaced the original drive with 320 Gbytes and added 512
> > Gbytes.
> > It displays the usual boot messages and finishes with something like
> > "the boot has failed" pretty much straight after "switch_root: no
> > such file"

> 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.

Probably a mkinitrd problem...
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