F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

[Tom H]

>  When a few weeks ago the new auto-updated kernel would not boot,
> used an older kernel, waiting for the next update. This was today, and
> now the two latest kernels don't work. Booting stops after the Fedora
> logo fills up white, after which it says (copying manually from
> screen, whitespaces probably not correct):
>
> ===
> ERROR: asr: wrong # of devices in RAID set "asr_BOOT     " [1/2] on /dev/sda
>
> No root device found
>
> Boot has failed, sleeping forever
> ===
>
>  The third oldest kernel apparently boots fine. Interestingly, Google
> finds nothing for "ERROR: asr: wrong".


If you add the following entry to your grub.conf, can you boot from it?

<begin>
title Fedora Test (2.6.31.12-174.2.3 with 2.6.31.6-162 initramfs)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686 ro
root=UUID=7dc291fd-739e-4280-8196-c906e8b6ea00 rhgb quiet
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us
initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.img
</end>