<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>>>> When a few weeks ago the new auto-updated kernel would not boot,<br>>>> used an older kernel, waiting for the next update. This was today, and<br>>>> now the two latest kernels don't work. Booting stops after the Fedora<br>>>> logo fills up white, after which it says (copying manually from<br>>>> screen, whitespaces probably not correct):<br><br>>>> ERROR: asr: wrong # of devices in RAID set "asr_BOOT " [1/2] on /dev/sda<br>>>> No root device found<br>>>> Boot has failed, sleeping forever<br><br>>>> The third
oldest kernel apparently boots fine. Interestingly, Google<br>>>> finds nothing for "ERROR: asr: wrong".<br><br>>> If you add the following entry to your grub.conf, can you boot from it?<br>>> <begin><br>>> title Fedora Test (2.6.31.12-174.2.3 with 2.6.31.6-162 initramfs)<br>>> root (hd0,0)<br>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686 ro<br>>> root=UUID=7dc291fd-739e-4280-8196-c906e8b6ea00 rhgb quiet<br>>> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us<br>>> initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.img<br>>> </end><br><br>> Yes, that one actually booted! Does that provide any insight?<br><br>It means that the initramfs files of the new kernels are not loading<br>dmraid either because the dmraid module is not being loaded, "dmraid<br>-ay is not being run or both."<br><br>Do you have any dracut and/or dmraid errors
in<br>/var/log/messages<br>or<br>/var/log/boot.log<br><br>Is there a dmraid directory or module in<br>/usr/share/dracut/modules.d<br>-- <br><br>You probably already know this but change in /etc/yum.conf <br>installonly_limit=3 to a higher value, <br>I have mine set to 5. This means the next kernel update you get won't erase your only<br>working kernel.<br><br>Dennis Kaptain<br></div></div>
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