updating my kernel just trashed my machine

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Jerry Amundson wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >  after "yum update kernel", reboot:
> >
> >  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while ...
> >  Volume group "VolGroup" not found
> > Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup/lv_swap)
> > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> >
> >  at this point, i think it's time to wipe the machine and wait for
> > the next attempt.  life is too short for this.
>
> Or, just select the previous kernel at boot.
> Sounds the initrd image failure I had a couple weeks ago. There are
> updates for that, IIRC...

  regardless of which kernel i now boot, i'm screwed.  i get the above
error message for the *original* kernel, while booting under the new
kernel gives me gdm/prefdm errors so i don't have an X session
anymore.

  at this point, i think it's time to just wait for the next release
candidate and see if things improve.

rday
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