Hi, This is my first email for this list and hope it is the beginning of a very useful and friendly exchange. I have installed my first fedora OS (FC5 - 32 bits) just a few weeks ago in my new computer (my wife thinks that it has cost half the real figures). No troubles at all, but then I ran "yum update" and found a new kernel version (2.6.16-1.2096). This is my box hardware : AMD 64 3000+ MoBo ASUS A8N-E 2 S-ATA Hd Samsung SP2504C (RAID 0 - VolGroup00) 1 IBM IDE - VolGroup01 nVidia CK804 Serial ATA Controller RAID 0 enabled (BIOS) VolGroup00 only LVM enabled Every time I try to boot a version 2.6.16* (it is happening with any other after 1.2096) it panics. Here is the message : Root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16e862] initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37e3c000, 0x1b3698 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting device-mapper: dm-stripe: Target length not divisible by chunk size device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Unable to open /dev/mapper/nvidia_acaafeee – unrecognised disk label. Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found Unable to find volume group “VolGroup00” Unable to access resume device (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01) mount: could not find filesystem `/dev/root` setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! I was suspicious of initrd. I have created my own versions of intrd making sure that all the important stuff (sata_nv, dm*,..) were available but got no luck. then I went to forums (here are the threads : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=447666 and http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=110478) and have follow the clues received (udev and so). At that time I was thinking of an error at updating process, them I installed a new IDE disk (please, don't tell missus) and now FC5 is installed in both VolGroup disks and 2 kernel version in each (2.6.15-1.2054 and 2.6.16-1.2122). So now when it boots the 2.6.15.-1.2054 version, I have no problems it doesn't matter from which disk I am booting. But when I use kernel version 2.6.16-1.2122 it issues the same error related to VolGroup00 and the only difference is that when I use IBM disk it boots anyway because it does not need anything from VolGroup00. So I googled for nVidia CK804 sata_nv FC5 and found many bugs posted, some fixed others not. I also have posted a bug at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192165. Now I am convinced that there is bug in libsata or sata_nv or dm*, i am not sure in which of them. OK. I am not expecting to have the solution as zap, but I would appreciate if somebody could give me a help in speeding up to get it fixed. I want to install that wonderful drivers for my new Nvidia Geforce.(oh. missus, again). Is it fine to try to contact the guys from RedHat directly ? I mean, the names listed in the bugzilla ? I am not sure if that is the right thing to do. Hope to hear from you soon and thank you for your attention. Next one will be shorter, I promise. Bye
