F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

[Oliver Ruebenacker]

     Hello,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  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>

  Yes, that one actually booted! Does that provide any insight?

     Take care
     Oliver

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