On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:12:47 +0300 Catalin Bucur <cata@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > stan wrote: > >> 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. > > Yes, it's because of your /boot partition. > Could you help me some other way please? > > # mkdir /tmp/initrd > # cd /tmp/initrd > # gunzip -c /boot/initrd-2.6.[...].fc7.img | cpio -idmv > # cat init # cat init #!/bin/nash mount -t proc /proc /proc setquiet echo Mounting proc filesystem echo Mounting sysfs filesystem mount -t sysfs /sys /sys echo Creating /dev mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev mkdir /dev/pts mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts mkdir /dev/shm mkdir /dev/mapper echo Creating initial device nodes mknod /dev/null c 1 3 mknod /dev/zero c 1 5 mknod /dev/systty c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty c 5 0 mknod /dev/console c 5 1 mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2 mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135 mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1 mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2 mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3 mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4 mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5 mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6 mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7 mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8 mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9 mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10 mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11 mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 echo Setting up hotplug. hotplug echo Creating block device nodes. mkblkdevs echo "Loading uhci-hcd.ko module" insmod /lib/uhci-hcd.ko echo "Loading ohci-hcd.ko module" insmod /lib/ohci-hcd.ko echo "Loading ehci-hcd.ko module" insmod /lib/ehci-hcd.ko mount -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb echo "Loading mbcache.ko module" insmod /lib/mbcache.ko echo "Loading jbd.ko module" insmod /lib/jbd.ko echo "Loading ext3.ko module" insmod /lib/ext3.ko echo "Loading scsi_mod.ko module" insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko echo "Loading sd_mod.ko module" insmod /lib/sd_mod.ko echo "Loading libata.ko module" insmod /lib/libata.ko echo "Loading ata_generic.ko module" insmod /lib/ata_generic.ko echo "Loading pata_amd.ko module" insmod /lib/pata_amd.ko echo Waiting for driver initialization. stabilized --hash --interval 250 /proc/scsi/scsi insmod /lib/scsi_wait_scan.ko rmmod scsi_wait_scan mkblkdevs resume LABEL=SWAP-sdb3 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 echo Booting has failed. sleep -1 > > Can you post the result from the last command here? I want to see > what modules are loading from your initrd file. And tell me if you > have only ide drives. Yes, only ide drives. > > Thank you, It seems you are much more knowledgeable than me about these things. Glad I don't have the problem, because if you can't solve it, I couldn't. :-)