heads up: new rawhide kernel doesn't boot for me

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Apr 7 13:14:58 UTC 2011


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On 04/07/2011 07:46 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I updated my rawhide VM today (on F15 host), but it failed to reboot
> using the new kernel, vmlinuz-2.6.39-0.rc1.git5.0.fc16.x86_64
> I got a failure (VFS diagnostic complaining that the UUID-specified
> root partition was not available), then panic.
> 
> Two subsequent attempts to reboot failed because even though I got
> to the grub kernel-selection menu, I was unable to get a response
> out of the interface, so couldn't select any other kernel or even
> edit a grub stanza.  Luckily for me, on the third attempt, grub's
> UI did respond to down-arrow and "ENTER", so I could select
> the preceding kernel, and that one did manage to boot.
> 
> If necessary (i.e., if it's not already fixed), I'll file a BZ.

kernel-2.6.39-0.rc2.git0.0.fc16 Works for me.
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