kernel update 2.6.25.4-10.fc8 breaking bootup FIXED

[David Halik]

Well, it looks like after a couple of hours I was able to fix it after 
all. Luckily a friend went through a similar issue months ago and 
suggested I try and disable any type of power management for the SATA 
drive. Sure enough, I found an option for "SATA power management" in the 
workstation BIOS, set it to "disabled" and I was able to boot without 
any further issues. One thing to note though, setting the kernel append 
of acpi=off did not help. Good luck!

David Halik wrote:
>
> This may not be related, but it seems as though the kernel is having 
> issues loading devices in general. Mabe there's a kernel option that 
> changed? I get these USB device errors right before it starts 
> complaining about accessing swap:
>
> hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
> hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
>
> Now keep in mind, the old 2.6.24.7-92.fc8 kernel still boots 
> everything just fine, which leads me to believe kernel options have 
> been changed that are having issues with my hardware.
>
> David Halik wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just yum upgraded three different FC8 workstations I have here at 
>> work to the latest kernel update and all three broke in the same 
>> manner. Upon restart grub loads the kernel and initrd, then it goes 
>> through the classic errors of:
>>
>> Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
>> 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
>>
>> My guess is that the initrd has bad info from the mkinitrd during the 
>> kernel install. Anyone else seeing this? These are installs that have 
>> been working fine with FC8 for months, and have had nothing change. 
>> All that I did was install the kernel update with yum, and the old 
>> kernel still works fine. As far as I can tell grub.conf is also 
>> correct. Any ideas?
>>
>> # kernel0 (hd0,0)
>> title Fedora (2.6.25.4-10.fc8)
>>        root (hd0,0)
>>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-10.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>>        initrd /initrd-2.6.25.4-10.fc8.img
>>
>> /etc/fstab:
>>
>> LABEL=/ /       ext3    defaults        1       1       # /dev/sda3
>> LABEL=/boot     /boot   ext3    defaults        1       2       # 
>> /dev/sda1
>> tmpfs   /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0       0
>> devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0       0
>> sysfs   /sys    sysfs   defaults        0       0
>> proc    /proc   proc    defaults        0       0
>> LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap    swap    defaults        0       0       # 
>> /dev/sda2
>>
>
>


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David Halik
System Administrator
OIT-CSS Rutgers University
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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