F16 Update Kernels fail to boot

Jurgen Kramer gtmkramer at xs4all.nl
Tue Aug 23 16:08:03 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 17:01 -0400, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> So far all update kernels on F16 (installed from F16rc5) have failed
> to boot.  The installation DVD kernel 3.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64 is the only
> one that boots.  I've attempted to boot with these with no luck:
> 
> 
> kernel-3.0.0-1.fc16.x86_64
> kernel-3.0.1-3.fc16.x86_64
> 
> 
> I removed quiet from the boot string and get no output for either
> kernel except this in yellow letters in the top left of the screen:
> 
> 
> Trying to allocate 1059 pages for VMLINUZ
> Got pages at 0x02826000
> [Linux-EFI, setup=0x10b9, size 0x422b90]
> 
> 
> I haven't filed a bug report yet, hate to file one that simply says
> its broke!  Anything else I can do to provide any output or help?
> 
> 
> This is a Sandybridge, UEFI, SDD box.  
Seems the same problem as I filed bug BZ #730124 for. I needed to switch
to grub2 to get my system booting.

Can you confirm you are still on grub1? Have to tried with kernel 3.1.0?




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