[Fedora-sparc] installing sparc F12

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Thursday 22 April 2010 11:29:36 am Rafal Maszkowski wrote:
> I almost have finished installing devel/sparc on E450. But can not
> manage to finish dracut startup properly. I turned on debugging and
> dracut shell but despite that after "Switching root" message and a long
> wait the system gets rebooted.
> 
> Last dracut words without selinux=0:
> 
> EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/mapper/sys-root
> dracut: Loading SELinux policy
> type=1403 audit(1271945512.030:2): policy loaded auid=4294967295
> ses=4294967295
> dracut: Switching root
> Restarting system.
> Resetting ...
> 
> and with selinux=0:
> 
> md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 54340878336
> dracut: mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 8 drives.
>  md0: unknown partition table
> dracut: Scanning devices md0  for LVM volume groups
> dracut: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
> dracut: Found volume group "sys" using metadata type lvm2
> dracut: 4 logical volume(s) in volume group "sys" now active
> dracut: Autoassembling MD Raid
> EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/mapper/sys-root
> dracut: Switching root
> Restarting system.
> Resetting ...
> 
> I wonder what is happening there.
> 
> R.

dracut is not finding your root filesystem correctly.  or its not able to find 
init on the root filesystem

does init=/bin/bash appended get you a shell?

you could also boot into resue mode and turn quiet off to get more debigging 
info.

Dennis
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