Broken Kernel since 2.6.15
I was running FC4 and I was running fine until the kernel-2.6.16.
I kept my older kernel-2.6.15 and 2.6.14 which worked just fine.
The newer kernels can't seem to find my SATA disks.
[Bug 187641] kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4 SATA panic
[Bug 199034] SATA -> Failed to set xfermode -> Kernel panic
I received an email saying:
FC4 has now transitioned to the Fedora legacy project, which will
continue
to
release security related updates for the kernel. As this bug is not
security
related, it is unlikely to be fixed in an update for FC4, and has been
migrated
to FC5.
Please retest with Fedora Core 5.
Thank you.
I decided to upgrade to FC5 since it still had a kernel-2.6.15.
Now my system won't boot.
I also tried the latest kernel-2.6.17, same thing.
I feel like fedora has pulled the plug on my system.
The funny thing is that I can boot from the DVD and go into rescue mode and
it finds the drive just fine.
So my question is what do I have to do to make a cdrom that I can boot from
and find my disk and load everything else from disk?
I tried a grub floppy, and that worked, but only for the kernels that worked
without it. So it didn't buy me anything.
So I think the cdrom has to have the kernel on it.