can't boot F19 system

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 17, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 17, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>>> But maybe once /boot/efi is mounted, it's worth doing dracut -f to rebuild the initramfs, and then reboot.
>> 
>> It's not worth it. I just used lsinitrd on my working system and neither fat.ko or vfat.ko are in the initramfs. So somehow on your system either vfat.ko or fat.ko (or both) are being blacklisted.
>>> 
>>> If that doesn't fix it, I'm curious whether the grub menu kernel options work. I'd try them in reverse order.
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>> Still interested with which kernel this does work.
>> 
>>> What about
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>>> cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
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>> Better is
>> 
>> grep -i fat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/*
> 
> And while you're at it also fpaste the grub.cfg.

And while you're at it, reboot with the busted kernel option, and at the emergency shell:

modprobe vfat
## note any messages for that command and then also
dmesg
## note the last entries that seem relevant


Chris Murphy