problem booting F13 kernel

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:51 +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 23:20 +0100, dexter wrote:
> >> On 1 June 2010 16:59, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:46 +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote:
> <snip>
> >>
> >> Well that looks nearly sane from here, but I would move the initrd
> >> line in the F13 section to match how it is with F12 i.e before the
> >> boot and savedefault lines. If still no joy I would try re-generating
> >> initrd with dracut in /root and compare the two with lsinitrd..
> > ----
> > indeed that is all it took
> >
> > Of course my other issue was only remotely related - the onboard nVidia
> > just is so poorly supported by KMS and jumpy and unusable so I stuck in
> > a video card and it's working much better
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Craig
> >
> Good to know that you got it working.
> Did you check the difference between the two ramdisks? My guess is
> that the one you got while installing didn't have required disk
> controller drivers.
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since what fixed it was moving the 'initramfs' command above
'savedefault & boot' lines, that the problem was that it was trying to
boot without the initramfs at all. I think that there is a bug in grubby
or whatever process installs the kernel on F13 which seemed to have the
boot commands out of sequence.

Craig


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