On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 00:49 +0200, Mike Hammill wrote:
Hello all,
After upgrading FC4 to FC5, I have not been able to successfully
reboot yet. The problem is a messed up yaboot.conf, I think. I
could use some help and or advice on that. Specifically, can I
specify at yaboot's "boot:" prompt (or perhaps it's OpenFirmware's)
an "init=" ? And if so, how?
It's sounds like an ofpath bug (for real this time...). What exact
hardware do you have.
As you can see, I'm struggling with things I don't totally
understand
here (probably why I am not succeeding!) First off, I'm not sure
exactly what initrd's really do. Second, I'm not sure not having one
is really the problem; it could be that odd message about the
console. Finally, even if I'm barking up the right tree, I don't
know how to make OpenFirmware/yaboot do the right thing.
A few notes, atm yaboot can not add initrd from the boot line (I really
need to fix this
Help or advice appreciated.
PS I don't have the yaboot.conf installed by the FC5 DVD in front of
me, but as I remember is didn't include much more than a boot=/dev/
hda2 and partition=3 in it.
Can you boot off the DVD with "linux rescue" into rescue mode. We
should be able to fix up from there. If you can boot into rescue mode,
can you:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grab yaboot.conf, and run ofpath --debug /dev/hda2
Also wget
http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ofpath and try with that
version.
Paul