Newer rawhide kernels does not boot on Acer TM2490 (was: Re: kernel 2.6.23-0.139.rc3.git10.fc8 still does not boot)

Martin Sourada martin.sourada at seznam.cz
Fri Aug 31 19:43:25 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:58 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> Indeed, this seems to be a kernel problem for me. I tried the old
> mkinitrd (6.0.9-9) with now luck. Here's the short table of kernels I
> have and boot/don't boot:
> 
> kernel-2.6.23-0.139.rc3.git10.fc8 BOOT
> kernel-2.6.23-0.142.rc3.git10.fc8 FAILS
> kernel-2.6.23-0.149.rc4.fc8	  FAILS
> kernel-xen-2.6.21-2931.fc8	  BOOT
> kernel-xen-2.6.21-2933.fc8	  FAILS
> 
> The fail message is:
>   Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
>   No volume groups found
>   Volume group "VolGroup00" not found
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01)
> mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
> setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
> setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
> switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
> 
> Is this known problem? Should I file a bugzilla? Do you need more info?
> 
> Martin
> 

Ok, so after all, I was wrong. It WAS mkinitrd. Following a suggestion
from another thread I recreated initrd (using mkinitrd-6.0.9-9) for the
newest kernel, and it indeed started working :)

Martin
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