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Old 11-24-2007, 08:20 PM   #1
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Problem with installing fedora 8


My system can not find swap after install ...

I have installed fedora without any problems; I have partitioned my own scheme, created swap and other partitions, yet when system boots up, I get planty of errors and it fail to boot.

I can start off from install cd with rescue session and then chroot to installed system, and everything is working just fine ... how to fix this? What is problem?

On the link is a photo of boot screen and errors:

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Old 11-24-2007, 09:22 PM   #2
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It looks to me that it can't find anything on your hard drive. All of the filesystem seems inaccessible.

Seems there might be some kernel problems, scanning over the following thread. Some people were able to either compile a kernel or go back to the 7.90 test kernel and then upgrade to fedora 8 to get things working.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...=171223&page=5
 
Old 11-24-2007, 10:27 PM   #3
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I have seen the same errors you are experiencing when the initrd image is not correct. Here is one way to fix it.

1) Boot using install DVD or rescue CD in rescue mode. When it asks if you should find Fedora installations click on continue so it mounts the installation to /mnt/sysimage.
2) At the command line chroot to /mnt/sysimage.
3) cd /boot, then determine kernel version using ls vmlinuz*
4) mv initrd-2.6.x.x-x.fc8.img initrd-2.6.x.x-x.fc8.old
5) mkinitrd initrd-2.6.x.x-x.fc8.img 2.6.x.x-x.fc8
6) exit, exit and it should reboot.

replace all above x.x.x-x with the latest kernel version-release you have installed. Based on your screen image it should be 2.6.23.1-42

Bill

Last edited by wmakowski; 11-24-2007 at 10:30 PM.
 
  


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