removing the non booting kernels how do I troubleshoot them?

John.Florian at dart.biz John.Florian at dart.biz
Thu Oct 18 17:26:35 UTC 2012


> From: Antonio Olivares <wingators at inbox.com>
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lists at colorremedies.com
> > Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:02:03 -0600
> > To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > Subject: Re: removing the non booting kernels how do I troubleshoot 
them?
> > 
> > 
> > On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> I get dracut errors:
> >> 
> >> dracut-initqueue[196]:  Warning:  could not boot
> >> dracut-initqueue[196]:  Warning:  /dev/root does not exist
> >> 
> >> Entering emergency mode.  Exit the shell to continue
> >> Type "journalctl" to view sytem logs.
> >> 
> >> dracut:/#_
> >> 
> >> and it just sits there. 
> 
> > Oh that sounds like you hit a dracut bug. If you rebuild their 
initramfs
> > files with the current dracut then they will probably work.
> > 
> > 
> > Chris Murphy
> > --
> 
> Newer kernels >= 3.6.0-2 do not boot on this toshiba laptop machine.
> I do not know/(have experience)/ with dracut to troubleshoot this 
> issue.  Newer 3.6.1* and today/yesterday's 3.6.2 kernels die with 
> the same message.  Can someone please suggest some commands to try 
> out and fix this issue.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Dracut_problems has always 
been good to me.


> 
> I have done some netinstalls with TC3 and a newer TC4 with great 
> success and do not see these issues!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Antonio
> 
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John Florian


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