On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 11:08:16 -0500, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been have some problems with F7 installs where at first boot the > root pivot fails possibly because some raid devices aren't seen. > > I have done something on the order of 10 installs to the machine from the DVD > and the problem seems to be related to how complete of an install I do. > If I install without doing customization (and just checking the 3 boxes) > the machine successfully boots after the install (at least in the small > sample of trials I have done). If I install everything then the root pivot > fails and the kernel panics and the only data I have is what is on my > screen at that point. I have tried leaving out the virtualization and language > packages and still had the same issue. > > I'd like to try to narrow this down further, but the installs take a fair > amount of time and I'd like to focus testing on packages that might actually > have an effect while nash is running. Well I decided to commit some more time to this, since I want to know what the cause is before upgrading any more machines to Fedora 7. So far I have narrowed the problem down to something in the "base" super category, but not in the compatibility nor virtualization categories. > > What I am hoping to get from the list is suggested packages that might affect > how nash runs, that wouldn't be in a minimal install.
