System broken after upgrade to kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16.i686
Andrew Gray
andrewg at linnetsol.co.uk
Mon Apr 23 08:39:04 UTC 2012
On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 16:49 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have just upgraded two systems to kernel-3.3.2-1. One system
> (x86_64 hardware) upgraded flawlessly. The other (i686 hardware) now
> won't boot. The grub menu comes up allowing me to choose between:
> kernel-3.3.2-1.f16.i686 -- which fails (see below)
> kernel-3.3.0-0.f16.i686 -- which works
> When I choose kernel-3.3.2-1, there is what seems like an
> exceptionally long pause, the system briefly displays some garbage,
> and then these messages appear:
>
> dracut warning no root device
> "block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d...af" found
>
> dracut warning no root device
> "block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d...af" found
>
> dropping to debug shell
>
> sh: 0 can't access tty: job control turned off
>
> dracut:/#
>
> In fact, as blkid shows the device (partition) that the system appears
> to be looking for is not there. However all the partitions that
> should be on the system are there, including the partition that is
> normally mounted on /boot. Which must be so, since the previous
> kernel starts OK.
>
> Questions:
> 1. What's going on here?
> 2. How can I fix it?
> 3. How can I prevent this in the future?
>
> Many thanks - jon
>
>
On your failing I686
Note I show you the file names as on my x86_64 F16
I suggest you look at /boot and the sizes of the *.img files for the
kernels. If the initramfs-3.3.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img is smaller than the
initramfs-3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64.img it kernel 3.3.2-1 didn't install
properly.
I had this a kernel upgrade earlier and fixed it with by reinstalling
the kernel it get it to create a proper initramfs file
yum reinstall kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16.i686
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Andrew Gray <andrewg at linnetsol.co.uk>
Linnet Solutions Ltd
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