Still "F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems persists"

[Andrew Farris]

John Summerfield wrote:
> See my earlier posts for details; this still persists.
> 
> I've not noticed that anyone's asking for information.
> 
> Photo at http://js.id.au/img2038.jpeg
> It's a bit blurry, I think the camera doesn't handle the contrast well, 
> but it is legible.

I've had this on some kernels and not on others, but what is more interesting is 
it can go away depending on what kernel you installed them from.  There was talk 
of a mkinitrd error when installing from 2.6.24 kernels, but I get that problem 
for some kernels when I install from 2.6.23-1 and not for others, and sometimes 
they install fine from the latest.

My advice.. keep lots of prior kernels, I've currently got installonlyn=10, and 
I've locked the oldest kernel to not get removed as well.  I just installed the 
-80 rawhide kernels, had both give this switchroot issue, then uninstalled them 
and reinstalled them and both work.  Get the kernel rpm cached, and try 
installing it from 2-3 different kernel versions... (a pretty weird issue).

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