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

[Jim Meyering]

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 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.

Good to know.  Thanks, Dan.