On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 08:18 -0400, Steve West wrote: > > I have compiled a new kernel and it cannot find the filesystem to > boot. How do I specify in the kernel confg what disk to boot? You've left off a lot of details so I have no idea if this applies to you or not but watch out for a race condition in initrd. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466071 Really only applies to certain SCSI drivers (most notably VMware SCSI devices) with the dm- modules compiled in and running lvm. This burned some of us with the latest 2.6.27 builds in rawhide and similar configurations. It results in lvm running too soon, before the drivers have settled and it can not find any physical volumes. Consequently, you can find the root file system. Workaround: In /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd add the following: MODULES="scsi_wait_scan" Then rebuild your initrd. Since you said it "cannot find the filesystem to boot", I'm not sure if you mean the actual "boot" file system (did you even get a grub prompt?) or if you got the "unable to mount root file system" when booting. Exact error messages are always helpful. > Steve Mike > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@xxxxxxxxxxxx /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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