On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:32:54 +0300 Catalin Bucur <cata@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > > I have made an upgrade with yum from FC6 to FC7 on a i686 system with > IDE drives. Everything worked ok, but I realized after upgrade that in > /etc/fstab I had /dev/hdX entries instead of LABELs. After reboot I > got the message: > > Creating root device > Mounting root filesystem > mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root/' > Setting up other filesystems > Setting up new root fs > setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory > no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults > setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory > setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory > Switching to new root and running init. > unmounting old /dev > unmounting old /proc > unmounting old /sys > switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > At that point I have tried to make all the modifications necessary to > boot again with this kernel. Now, the situation looks like: > > -> fdisk > /dev/sda1 1 126 1012063+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris /dev/sda2 127 2228 16884314+ 83 Linux > > -> blkid > /dev/sda2: LABEL="Cata" UUID="ebfbf39f-558d-4d30-b143-9e581bf41f77" > SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" > /dev/sda1: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" > > -> /etc/fstab > LABEL=Cata / ext3 > defaults 1 1 sysfs /sys > sysfs defaults 0 0 > none /proc proc > defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm > tmpfs defaults 0 0 > none /dev/pts devpts > gid=5,mode=620 0 0 LABEL=swap swap > swap defaults 0 0 > > -> /boot/grub/grub.conf > default=0 > timeout=7 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=Cata > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img > The only difference I see between my F7 setup which works fine and yours is that I don't have the /boot in front of the kernel and initrd. I have a separate /boot partition, though. Maybe someone else will spot something. > -> /boot/grub/device.map > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/sda > > -> I have made another initrd file /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img > which had the folowing entries: > resume LABEL=swap > echo Creating root device. > mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro sda2 > echo Mounting root filesystem. > mount /sysroot > echo Setting up other filesystems. > setuproot > echo Switching to new root and running init. > switchroot > > -> at the boot time I saw that ata_piix driver loaded ok: > <7>ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.10ac1 > <7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 > <6>ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma > 0x0001f000 irq 14 > <6>scsi0 : ata_piix > > > I even tried to upgrade the system again with FC7 DVD, it was > installed the kernel, made his initrd, but no success at reboot. With > FC7 rescue cd it is booting ok, so I do not understand what is the > problem with his kernel from distribution (which is the default - > 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7). > > > Thank you for your time,
