Failure to boot new F15 minimal netinst install

[Matthias Runge]

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On 01/04/11 09:00, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading my F15 netbook today, it failed to boot again. It

there are (at least) two known bugs regarding systemd-21 and booting.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692573
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692602

You may try to boot with enforcing=0 appended on kernel command line in
grub.


> refused to give me a login prompt and nothing happened after at least 20
> minutes after sitting at this[1] screen. In this state, the only way to
> get any response was to hard-reset the machine. Ctrl+Alt+{Fn,Delete} did
> nothing. Going into init 1 (via grub menu editing) got me a shell, but
> trying systemctl default or ^D put it in the same state as before. After
> so much of this, it seems as though something on /boot became unhappy
> (it was uncleanly unmounted every time) as the keyboard behaved weird
> ('1' inserted a 't' and everything else seemed to be just spaces) so I
> was locked out of init 1 as well. I tried doing a fresh F15 minimal
> netinst install and I am at the same state. I'm hesitant to do too much
> without some guidance because of the chance that /boot gets corrupted
> again and needing another reinstall.
> 
>>From what I can recall and hints from Bodhi, (at least) the following
> were upgraded on the original install:
> 
>   - kernel-PAE-2.6.28.2-8
>   - systemd-21
>   - udev-167-$unsure
> 
> Other things may have also been installed, but I can't recall. The
> previous kernel upgrade was 2.6.38.1-$unsure to give a lower bound on
> packages that may have changed. I have a list of what was installed
> (after an attempted yum history undo from one of the init 1 instances to
> fix things, unfortunately partial due to packages being deleted from the
> repos), but it's on the netbook yet (saved in /home).
> 
> --Ben
> 
> [1]http://i.imgur.com/odjeA.jpg
> 

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