On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Dave Jones wrote: >On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:41:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The real question seems to me, how did this new kernel get past > > testing if it won't even boot? Thats now > > vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4, the matching initrd, System.map etc. > > The .1-1369 seems to be ok if I don't want to run X. > >The revelation this week seems to be that the livna nvidia rpm broke >modprobe.conf on a number of installations. Did you have this > installed by any chance ? What would be the full name of that rpm? There is not a livna entry in any of the files in /etc/yum.repos.d if that helps. They are exactly as installed. This is an nvidia card, a 5200 something with 128 megs of ram. From an lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) > The number of 'my initrd broke' bugs > that got filed over the last month or so has really gone through > the roof, and my current bet is that this is the cause for the bulk > (if not all) of them. > >The kernels that get pushed out to updates do see testing by both >myself, and users of the updates-testing branch. However, this > doesn't cover every possible hardware combination out there. This board has an onboard video controller, turned off in the bios as it eats 90% of the cpu to drive it. It doesn't show in the lspci at all. >So the situation is.. not all people don't test the -testing > updates, and then some folks complain that the updates that go out > aren't tested. There's really nothing more that I can do to get > things tested. Some updates even spend quite a while in -testing. > (Sometimes, I even if they've spent too long in -testing). > > Dave I posted a verbatum copy of the screen in a previous message, the error is output immediately after the 'booting the kernel' message. The language is a bit obtuse, but I believe its because it cannot find the hard drive(s) once the vmlinuz file is loaded and the exec begun. Something about unknown_*****(0,0) to be inexact. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
